Agriculture of Maine: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture, Volume 38, Part 1895 |
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Page 40
... important element , the butter fat ? Therefore have a legal standard , that cream shall be valued by its content of butter fat determined by the scales and by the Babcock test . I mentioned the Babcock test , but I am not particular ...
... important element , the butter fat ? Therefore have a legal standard , that cream shall be valued by its content of butter fat determined by the scales and by the Babcock test . I mentioned the Babcock test , but I am not particular ...
Page 44
... important questions that have come before the Board , and certainly something should be done to regulate this matter . It is encroaching upon us from East to West and from North to South , and I see no reason why this resolution should ...
... important questions that have come before the Board , and certainly something should be done to regulate this matter . It is encroaching upon us from East to West and from North to South , and I see no reason why this resolution should ...
Page 46
... important to the farmers . They are getting waked up over this cream business . The farmer sells his cream and he has nothing to say about it because he has no standard to work from . He cannot tell how much the creamery man owes him ...
... important to the farmers . They are getting waked up over this cream business . The farmer sells his cream and he has nothing to say about it because he has no standard to work from . He cannot tell how much the creamery man owes him ...
Page 47
... importance with us , and I did not want the resolution regarding the dairy interest left where it would be buried . Mr. STRAW - I might say that the reason for the change in our section from the Babcock test to selling by the inch was ...
... importance with us , and I did not want the resolution regarding the dairy interest left where it would be buried . Mr. STRAW - I might say that the reason for the change in our section from the Babcock test to selling by the inch was ...
Page 54
... importance of this question and took hold of it , it would inevitably involve this country in civil war , and in that civil war the institution would go out . The " irrepressible conflict " of Mr. Seward led directly to that issue ...
... importance of this question and took hold of it , it would inevitably involve this country in civil war , and in that civil war the institution would go out . The " irrepressible conflict " of Mr. Seward led directly to that issue ...
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Page 116 - ... in a conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a plainly printed statement clearly and truly certifying the number of net pounds in the...
Page 118 - ... upon thus ascertaining any violation of this act, to forthwith notify the manufacturer, importer, or dealer in writing, and give him not less than thirty days thereafter in which to comply with the requirements of this...
Page 118 - ... samples, and placed in glass vessels and carefully sealed and a label placed on each stating the name of the party from whose stock the sample was drawn and the time and place of drawing, and said label shall also be signed by the person taking the sample, and by the party or parties in interest or their representatives at the drawing and sealing of said samples; one...
Page 118 - ... but said sample shall be drawn in the presence of said party or parties in interest, or their representatives, and taken from a parcel or a number of packages which shall not be less than ten per...
Page 117 - Ten dollars each for the nitrogen and the phosphoric acid and five dollars for the potash, contained or said to be contained in the fertilizer, this fee to be assessed on any brand offered for sale, distribution or transportation in the state.
Page 117 - ... which may be in the possession of any manufacturer, importer, agent or dealer in this state; but said sample shall be drawn in the presence of...
Page 117 - ... and paid the license fee as prescribed in this section, no agent or seller of such manufacturer, importer or shipper shall be required to file such statement or pay such fee.
Page 117 - ... or any feeding stuff which contains substantially a smaller percentage of constituents than are certified to be contained, shall, on conviction in a court of competent jurisdiction, be fined not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, and not more than two hundred dollars for each subsequent offense.
Page 116 - Every manufacturer, company or person who shall sell, offer or expose for sale or for distribution in this state any concentrated commercial...
Page 13 - In the presence of these facts, in the front of these figures demonstrating that agriculture in this Republic has during the year fed itself, supplied all citizens of the Union engaged in other vocations, and then shipped abroad a surplus of over $500,000,000 worth of its products, how can anyone dare to assert that farming is generally unremunerative and unsatisfactory to those who intelligently follow it?