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information required has been filed with him, issue to the said 

 manufacturer or applicant a license for the sale of such fertilizer 

 during the calendar year next succeeding said payment. 



Article 10 provides for the inspection and examination of tur- 

 pentine, linseed or flaxseed oil sold, offered or exposed for sale 

 upon the markets of this state. It provides that no person shall 

 manufacture, mix for sale, sell or offer for sale, under the name 

 of spirits of turpentine, any article which is not wholly distilled 

 from rosin, turpentine gum, or scrape from pine trees, and un- 

 mixed and unadulterated with oil, benzine or any other substance 

 of any kind whatever, unless the package containing same shall 

 be stenciled or marked with letters not less than two inches high, 

 " adulterated spirits of turpentine." The violation of this stat- 

 ute is a misdemeanor and is also punishable by a penalty in addi- 

 tion to the fine. The Commissioner of Agriculture is required 

 to enforce the provisions of this article and is given power of 

 examination, inspection and sampling of such goods. 



Article 11 deals with apples, pears, peaches and quinces. It 

 provides against the sale of evaporated apples other than stand- 

 ard evaporated apples, and defines standard evaporated apples as 

 evaporated apples containing not more than 27 per centum of 

 water or fluids as determined by drying for 4 hours at the temper- 

 ature of boiling water. It provides against the sale of apples, 

 pears and peaches as and for New York State grown apples, 

 pears or peaches unless they were grown within the state of New 

 York ; provides against the branding or labeling on the package 

 or barrel containing such apples, pears or peaches to indicate 

 that they were New York grown unless they were so grown; pro- 

 vides for the uniform packing or repacking of apples or pears 

 and provides that when they are repacked by the purchaser, that 

 if they are repacked in the barrels in which they were purchased 

 and such barrels bear the name of the grower, that the person 

 so repacking shall erase from such package or barrel the name of 

 the packer or grower first or originally placed thereon. It also 

 defines the term "barrel " when used in transactions of purchase 

 or sale of apples, pears or quinces to be a quantity equal to 100 

 quarts of grain or dry measure and gives the following dimen- 

 sions: head diameter I 7 ' , s inches; length of slave, 281^ inches; 



