Trade Practice Rules for the Peat Industry

Promulgation date as printed in the volumes: Jan. 13, 1950. 6 mentions in F.T.C. Decisions volumes 46-76.

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• v046-0019, 46 F.T.C. 1164: all of the practices charged in the complaint as being in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act were discontinued by respondent upon its acceptance of Trade Practice Rules for the Peat Industry, approved January 13, 1950, and that respondent has now furnished the Commission with evidence of its compliance with said rules and of its intention to continue to comply therewith. The
• v046-0019, 46 F.T.C. 1170: all of the practices charged in the complaint as being in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act were discontinued by respondent upon its acceptance of Trade Practice Rules for the Peat Industry, approved January 18, 1950, and that respondent has now furnished the Commission with evidence of its compliance with said rules and of its intention to continue to comply therewith. The
• v074-0087, 74 F.T.C. 1672: 72 FEDERAL TRADE COM).ISSJON DECISIONS in the proposed operation which comes under Commission rules or regulations. Applicant was advised that the Commission s Trade Practice Rules for the Peat Industry, as promulgated January 13, 1950 (a copy of which was enclosed), apply to proposed operations if the material to be sold comes within the following definitions under such rules: As used in the
• v076-0160, 76 F.T.C. 1123: to as maiden cane grass, cut grass , and saw grass. Pfine comprises the bulk of the plant residue present in the product. Three provisions of the Commission s Trade Practice Rules for the Peat Industry govern the use of the term " Peat Moss" in this particular situation. First, there is the definition of the word peat " which is as folImvs: Peat. Any partly d
• v076-0160, 76 F.T.C. 1123: 16. On the basis of the foregoing facts, the Commission expressed the opinion that the proposed terminology complies with the requirements of Rule 3 (b) of the Trade Practice Rules for the Peat Industry." However, the opinion also noted that some of the art work used the words " Peat Moss" without qualification or
• v046-0022, 46 F.T.C. 1496: . The Peat industry, in which business of the industry is the marketing of peat products represented as suitable for any agricultural or horticultural soil conditioning or soil improvement purpose, for use as poultry or stable litter, or for similar uses, and in which the rules ban various unfair methods and deceptive