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nitrogen in an available form; of potash soluble in water and of phosphoric acid in 

 available form (soluble or reverted) and the insoluble phosphoric acid. 



Sec. 2. Before any commercial fertilizer is sold or offered for sale, the manu- 

 facturer, importer or party who causes it to be sold or offered for Sale witliin this State, 

 shall file with the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture a certified copy of the 

 analysis and certificate referred to in section one, and shall also deposit with said 

 secretary a sealed glass jar containing not less than two pounds of such fertilizer, with 

 an affidavit that it is a fair sample of the article thus to be sold or offered for sale. 



Sec. 3. The manufacturer, importer, or agent of any commercial fertilizer, the 

 retail price of which exceeds ten dollars per ton as aforesaid, shall pay annually to the 

 secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, on or before the first day of May, a license 

 fee of twenty dollars for each and every brand of fertilizer he offers for sale in this 

 State. Provided, That whenever the manufacturer or importer shall have paid this 

 license fee his agents shall not be required to do so. 



!SEC. 4. All such analyses of commercial fertilizers required by this act shall be 

 made under the direction of the State Board of Agriculture and paid for out of the 

 funds arising froju the license fees provided for in section three. At least one analysis 

 of each fertiUzer shall be made annually. 



Sec. 5. The secretary of the State Board of Agriculture shall publish in his annual 

 report a correct statement of all analyses made and certificates filed in his office, 

 together with a statement of all moneys received for license fees, and expended for 

 analysis. Any surplus from license fees remaining on hand at the close of the fiscal 

 year shall be placed to the credit of the experimental fund of s;ud board. 



Sec. 6. Any person or persons who shall sell or offer for sale any commercial fer- 

 tilizer in this State without first complying with the provisions of sections one, two, 

 and three of this act, or who shall attach or cause to be attached to any such package of 

 fertilizer an analysis stating that it contains a larger percentage of any one or more of 

 the constituents or ingredients named in section one of this act than it really does con- 

 tain, shall upon conviction thereof be fined not less than one hundred dollars for the 

 first offense, and not less than three hundred dollars for every subsequent offense, and 

 the offender shall also be liable for damages sustained by the purchaser of such fer- 

 tilizer on account of such misrepresentation. 



Sec. 7. The State Board of Agriculture by any duly authorized agent is hereby 

 authorized to select from any package of commercial fertilizer exposed for sale in this 

 State, a quantity, not exceeding two pounds, for a sample, such sample to be used for 

 the purposes of an official analysis and for comparison with the certificate filed with 

 the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture and with the certificate affixed to the 

 package on sale. 



Sec. 8. All suits for the recovery of fines under the provisions of this act shall be 

 brought under the direction of the State Board of Agriculture. 



Approved March 10, 1885. 



At a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture held in Lansing, Dec. 1, 1885, the 

 undersigned was appointed the agent of the Board to make the analyses of commercial 

 manures contemplated in the foregoing act. The object of the law is to protect the 

 purchasers and honest manufactm-ers, and to prevent or to punish fraud in commercial 

 fertilizers. 



The specimen for comparison of any fertilizer, with affidavit, and the fee for analysis 

 must be deposited with the secretary of the Board on or before the first day of May 

 each year. 



Any manufacturer or importer who desires to avail himself of the benefits of the 

 proviso in Sec. 3, should notify me of the names of agents selling the fertilizers in this 

 State, and the place where they are offered for sale. 



Specimens for analysis will be selected in the open market, and not received from the 

 manufacturer or his agent. 



For the sake of uniformitv in the certificate required in Sees. 1 and 2 to be affixed to 

 each package of fertilizer, and to be filed with the secretary of the Board, I recommend 

 the following form of Certificate : 



Name or trade mark 



Name of manufacturer 



Place of manufacture 



Net pounds in package lbs. 



' Percentage of available Nitrogen 



Percentage of Potash soluble in water 



.Analysis. \ Percentage of Phosphoric Acid soluble in water 



J Percentage of Phosphoric Acid reverted 



[_ Percentage of Phosphoric Acid insoluble 



