228 Report of the Chemist of the 



statement shall be filed thereafter annually during the month of 

 December. Each manufacturer, importer or 'person, before selling, 

 offering or exposing for sale in this state any brand of commercial 

 fertilizer, shall annually, during the month of December, pay to 

 the treasurer of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station 

 a license fee of twenty dollars for each and every brand of fer- 

 tilizer, 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 marhet at any time during said calendar year shall be 

 preceded by such payment. Each manufacturer, importer or per- 

 son who has complied with the provisions of this act relative to 

 filing the aforesaid certified statement and to the payment of the 

 aforesaid license fee shall be entitled to receive a certificate from 

 the director of said station setting forth said facts. Said treasurer 

 shall pay all money received as aforesaid to the treasurer of the 

 state of New Yorh, which treasurer when said money is so appro- 

 priated, upon the audit of the board of control of said station and 

 the order of the comptroller of the state of New York, shall pay 

 the money so received, or so much of it as may be necessary, in 

 maintaining the expenses of enforcing the provision of this act. 

 Said board of control shall report annually the expenditures so 

 incurred for salaries, laboratory expenses, chemical supplies, trav- 

 eling expenses and printing. 



Presenca of inert nitrogenous matter to be stated. 



§ 4. 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 fertilizer or as an ingredient of any fertilizer, unless an 

 explicit printed statement of the fact shall be conspicuously affixed 

 to every package of such fertilizer, and shall accompany every 

 parcel or lot of the same. 



