VERMONT AGRICULTURAL REPORT. II 



manufacturer, importer, agent or seller desires to sell, offer or expose 

 for sale more than this number of brands, he shall annually in the month 

 of December pay a license fee of twenty dollars for each and every 

 brand or kind of commercial fertilizer, bearing a distinctive name, brand 

 or trade mark, which said manufacturer, importer, agent or seller is to 

 sell, offer or expose for sale in excess of five; provided that if said 

 fertilizer is claimed to or does contain phosphoric acid and either nitro- 

 gen or potash only, the license fee shall be fifteen dollars. Said di- 

 rector, on the receipt of each such fee, shall issue to such licensee a 

 license for the sale of the brand or kind of commercial fertilizer for 

 which the fee is paid. 



Sec. 5. Whenever a manufacturer, importer, agent or seller of a 

 commercial fertilizer desires at any time to sell such material and has 

 not paid the license fee therefor in the preceding month of December, as 

 required in section four, he shall pay the license fee prescribed therein 

 before offering or exposing the material for sale. The license fee due 

 in December shall cover and authorize all sales within the state of the 

 brands or kinds of commercial fertilizer specified in the license for the 

 calendar year next succeeding that month. All licenses shall expire on 

 the thirty-first day of December of the year for which they are issued. 

 Whenever the manufacturer, importer or shipper of a commercial fer- 

 tilizer or material used for manurial purposes shall have paid the license 

 fee, no agent or seller of said manufacturer, importer or shipper shall 

 be required to pay such fee. 



Sec. 6. The amount of the license fees received by said director shall 

 be paid by him to the state treasurer. So much of the fees collected 

 under this act shall be paid by the state treasurer to the treasurer of 

 said experiment station as the director of said experiment station may 

 show by his bills has been expended in performing the duties required 

 by this act, but in no case to exceed the amount of the license fees 

 received by the state treasurer under this act, such payment to be made 

 on or before the thirtieth day of June upon the order of the state 

 auditor, who is hereby directed to draw his order for such purpose. 

 The director shall annually publish a statement of the receipts and ex- 

 penditures under this act. 



Sec. 7. No person shall sell, offer, or expose for sale in this state, 

 leather or its products, hair, wool, waste, garbage, tankage or other 

 inert nitrogenous material, as a fertilizer, or as an ingredient of any 

 fertilizer, unless an explicit printed statement of the fact shall be con- 

 spicuously affixed to every package of such fertilizer, and shall accom- 

 pany every parcel or lot of the same. 



Sec. 8. Any person knowingly selling, offering or exposing for sale, 

 a commercial fertilizer, without the statement required by section three 

 of this act, or containing a smaller percentage of any one or more of 

 the ingredients named therein, other than chlorin, than is specified 

 on the label, or for the sale of which the license fee specified in section 

 four has not been paid or who fails to comply with any of the sections 



