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Agriculture.

286 Sect. 11.

invoice has effect as a warranty only that the actual percentages do not differ from those stated in the invoice beyond the prescribed " Cattle " here means bulls, cows, oxen, heifers, limits of error (n). calves, sheep, goats, swine, and horses (o).

Sale and Adulteration.

Feeding stuff prepared from

two or more substances.

Implied warranty that feeding stuff is fit

for use.

Statement by vendor as to percentages a warranty.

is

629. Where any feeding stuff is sold under a name or description implying that it is prepared from any particular substance or from any two or more particular substances, or is the product of any particular seed or of any two or more particular seeds, and without indication that it is mixed or compounded with any other substance or seed, there is implied a warranty by the seller that it is pure, that is to say, is prepared from that substance or those substances only, or is a product of that seed or those seeds onj{p). On the sale of any feeding stuff there is implied a warranty by the seller that the article is suitable to be used as such (q). 630. Any statement by the seller of the percentages of the chemical and other ingredients contained in any article sold for use as a fertiliser, or of the nutritive and other ingredients contained and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 27), ss. 1 (2), 10 (2). limits of error with regard to feeding stiifEs are as follows, the percentage of albuminoids being taken as the percentage of nitrogen multiplied by 6-25 :— (n) fertilisers

The prescribed

Description of Feeding Stuff.

Decorticated Cotton Cake or Meal ITndecorticated Cotton Cake or Meal

Limits of Error.

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Earth Nut or Ground Nut Cake or Meal Palm Kernel or Palm Nut Cake or Meal Cocoanut Cake or Meal Niger Seed Cake or Meal Sesame Seed Cake or Meal Sunflower Seed Cake or Meal Hemp Seed Cake or Meal Kurdee or Safflower Cake or Meal Compound Cakes and Meals

One -tenth

of the percentage of of the percentage of albuminoids stated in the invoice. oil

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and one-tenth

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One-eighth of the percentage of oil and one -eighth of the percentage of albuminoids

Linseed Cake or Meal

Eape Cake

or

....

Meal

Maize Products

stated in the invoice.

One-fifth of the percentage of oil and one-fifth of the percentage of albuminoids stated in the invoice.

All other feeding stuffs (as above defined) not otherwise specified in this schedule .

These limits are prescribed by the Eertilisers and Feeding Stuffs (Limits of Error) Eegulations, 1906, the following example being given In the case of a linseed cake, if the percentages stated in the invoice are, oil 10, albuminoids 30, then the warranty implied under sect. 1 (2) of the Act will be that the linseed cake contains :— oil, 8*75 to 11*25 per cent. albuminoids, 26*25 to 33-75 per

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cent.

Fertilisers and Ip) Ibid., s. 1 (3). (o)

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Iq)

Ibid.,

s.

1 (4).

Feeding Stuffs Act, 1906

(6

Edw.

7, c. 27), s.

10

(1).