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monetary deficiencies are considered, it is obvious that purchasers 

 should receive more protection than the provisions of the present law 

 afford. 



The added protection for purchasers of fertilizers could be furnished 

 by amending the present section 221, Chapter 435, by incorporating 

 something like the following addition, indicated by italics: 



"It shall also be a violation of the provisions of this article if any 

 commercial fertilizer or material to be used as a fertilizer shall contain 

 a smaller percentage of nitrogen, phosphoric acid, potash or calcium 

 oxide than is certified in said statement to be contained therein, when 

 such deficiency shall be greater than ten per centum of any one of 

 such constituents unless there be a monetary equivalent in excesses 

 in other guaranteed constituents as provided herein; provided such de- 

 ficiency does not exceed twenty per centum of such guarantee in any 

 one constituent;" and provided further that when such ten per centum 

 deficiency amounts to more than three-tenths of one pound of nitrogen or 

 one pound of phosphoric acid or of potash in one hundred pounds of 

 fertilizer or material to be used as a fertilizer, it shall be a violation unless 

 there be a monetary equivalent in excesses in other guaranteed constituents 

 as provided herein. "The basis of values of such constituents neces- 

 sary in making such computations shall be determined by the com- 

 missioner of agriculture." 

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