394 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Section 4. The board of managers shall organize by the election 

 of a president, a secretary and treasurer, who shall severally hold 

 thoir offices for one year and until their successors are elected. 

 The}' shall locate the station herein provided for, and shall appoint 

 a director, wlio shall have the general management and oversight of 

 the analyses, investigations and experiments necessary to carry out 

 the purposes named in section one of this act, and shall employ 

 competent assistants to aid in prosecuting the work of the station. 

 It shall, whenever public interest will be promoted thereb}', publish 

 by bulletin or otherwise, the results of its investigations and experi- 

 ments, and shall make an annual report of its work to the governor 

 and council, which shall be printed and bound with the report of the 

 secretary of the board of ao-riculture. 



Section 5. The sum of five thousand dollars, annually, is hereby 

 appropriated to the Maine Fertilizer Control and Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, and the governor and council, from time to time, shall 

 draw their warrant on the state treasurer for such sums of money 

 as are necessary to defray the expenses herein provided for, not 

 exceeding in any one year the appropriation herein named, an 

 account of which shall first be approved by the president and secre- 

 tary of the board of manao;ers. 



Section 6. The board of managers shall receive no compensation 

 for time and services rendered, but shall be reimbursed for actual 

 expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. 



Section 7. Any manufacturer, company, or person who shall 

 offer, sell, or expose for sale in this state, any commercial fertilizer, 

 the price of which exceeds ten dollars per ton, shall affix to every 

 package, in a conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a plainly 

 printed certificate, stating the number of net pounds in the package 

 sold or offered for sale, the name or trade-mark under which the 

 article is sold, the name of the manufacturer, and the place of 

 manufacture, and a chemical analysis stating the percentage of 

 nitrogen, or its equivalent in ammonia in available form, of potash 

 soluble in water, and of phosphoric acid in available form, soluble 

 or reverted, as well as the total phosphoric acid. 



Section 8. The manufacturer, company or person selling or 

 offering for sale in this state, any commercial fertilizers exceeding 

 ten dollars per ton in price shall, on or before the first da}' of April 

 annually, or before offering the same for sale, procure a license from 

 the board of managers, authorizing the sale of said fertilizers in the 



