Art. 9 Commercial Fertilizers Gl c 



inercial fertilizer, or any material to be used as fertilizer the 



selling price of which exceeds five dollars per 

 Payment. ton shall annually during the month of Decem- 



ber, pay to the treasurer of the state of New 

 York a license fee of twenty dollars for each and every brand of 

 fertilizer, or material to be used as fertilizer the selling price of 

 which exceeds five dollars per ton bearing a distinctive name, 

 brand or trade mark, which said manufacturer, importer or person 

 is to sell, offer or expose for sale in this state during the calendar 

 year next succeeding said payment, provided always that the 

 placing of any new brand upon the market at any time during said 

 calendar year shall be preceded by such payment. Said treasurer 

 shall in each case at once certify to the commissioner of agriculture 

 the payment of such license fee. Each manufacturer, importer 

 or person who has complied with the provisions of this article rela- 

 tive to filing the aforesaid certified statement and to the payment 



of the aforesaid license fee shall be entitled to 

 Certificate of receive a certificate from the commissioner of 

 commissioner, agriculture setting forth said facts. All money 

 received from license fees, as aforesaid, when 

 so appropriated shall be used, or so much thereof as may be neces- 

 sary, in maintaining the expenses of enforcing the provisions of 

 this article. 



§ 223. Presence of inert nitrogenous matter to be stated, — No 



person shall sell, offer or expose for sale in this state leather or its 

 products or other inert nitrogenous material in any form, as a fer- 

 tilizer or as an ingredient of any fertilizer, unless an explicit state- 

 ment of the facts shall be conspicuously affixed to every package 

 of such fertilizer, and shall accompany every parcel or lot of the 

 same. 



§ 224. Enforcement of provisions of article; selection and analy- 

 sis of samples. — The commissioner of agriculture may for the pur- 

 pose of the enforcement of this article employ such experts and 

 agents as may be necessary. He shall from time to time and at 

 least once in each year collect or cause to be collected samples of 

 commercial fertilizers sold, offered or exposed for sale within this 



