•134 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Sec. 5. The secretary of the State Board of Agriculture shall pub- 

 lish 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 said board. 



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

 commercial fertilizer in this State without first complying with the 

 provisions of sections one, two, and three of this act, or who shall at- 

 tach 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 contain 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 fertilizer 

 on account of such misrei)resentation. 



Sec. 7. The State Board of Agriculture by any dul}^ authorized agent 

 is hereby authorized to select from au}^ 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 

 analj^sis and for comparison v/ith 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. 



Twenty manufacturing firms have registered for sale in this State, 

 during 1905, 120 different brands of fertilizers. 



Of these various brands, 82 are complete fertilizers; of the others, 12 

 contain phosphoric acid and potash, without nitrogen; 11 contain phos- 

 phoric acid and nitrogen Avithout potash ; 12 contain phosphoric acid 

 only; 2 contain potash salts only and 1 contains nitrogen only. 



The Station has attempted, through its collecting agent, Mr. E. A. 

 Boyer, to obtain samples of all these brands upon the 0})en market, but 

 in many cases it was not possible to find them. Unless otherwise in- 

 dicated the analyses herein reported were made on the collected samples. 



The analyses on tlie whole are very satisfactory for in but a few cases 

 do the percentages found fall far below those guaranteed, and it is 

 quite evident that no wilful attempt has been made to defraud. How- 

 ever some evidences of uneven mixing are apparent. Prospective binders 

 would find it much to their benefit to carefully study the accompanying 

 tables before making large |iurchases. The following is a partial list of 

 persons and places where fertilizers were found on sale this spring: 



Adrian — Nathan Smith & Son. 

 Alhion. — F. Steele. 



Bay City — Jenison Hardware Co., R. C. Bialy, F. C. Goodiue, Presley 

 & Laver, G. H. Mosher, Mohr Hardware Co. 

 BehUng — Wciter, Wise & Co. 



Benton Earl)Or — B. N. Kowlen & Co., H. E. Boehn. 

 Birmingham — E. R. Smith & Co. 



