1946 Agricultural Law [Art. 9f. 



fertilizer or material to be used as a fertilizer or as an ingre- 

 dient of any fertilizer, unless an explicit statement of the facts 

 shall be affixed to every package in a conspicuous place on the out- 

 side thereof and shall accompany every parcel or lot which may be 

 sold, offered or exposed for sale in bulk. {As amended by chapter 

 435 of the Laws 0/ 1910.) 



§ 224. Commissioner of agriculture to take samples for anaylsis; 

 TransmiB- aualysis to be made by director of experiment station. The com- 



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sample. mlssiouer of agriculture shall at least once in each year transmit 

 to the New York agricultural experiment station for analysis at 

 least one sample, to be taken in the manner hereinafter prescribed, 

 of the different brands of commercial fertilizers and materials to 

 be used as fertilizers the selling price of which exceed five dollars 

 per ton, which are or may be sold, offered or exposed for sale 



Taking of under the provisions of this article. The said commissioner of 



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agriculture or his duly authorized representatives in taking 

 samples shall take them in triplicate in the presence of at least 

 one witness and in the presence of such witness shall seal such 

 samples and shall at the time of taking tender, and if accepted, 

 deliver to the person apparently in charge one of such samples, 

 one of the other samples the commissioner of agriculture shall 

 cause to be analyzed. When samples are taken from fertilizers 

 in bags, a tube shall be used and it shall be inserted at one end 

 of the bag and shall pass substantially the entire length of the bag, 

 so as to take a core of the material being sampled from substan- 

 tially the entire length of the bag. Samples thus taken from indi- 

 vidual bags shall be thoroughly mixed and the official samples be 

 taken from the mixture so drawn. Samples of fertilizer taken as 

 herein provided shall be taken from at least five per centum of the 

 separate original packages in the lot for the mixture from which 

 the official samples shall be taken. Xo action shall be maintained 

 for a violation of the provisions of this article based upon an 

 analysis of samples taken otherwise than as herein provided or 

 taken from le^s than five separate original packages. The director 

 of said experiment station shall continue to analyze or cause to be 

 analyzed such samples of commercial fertilizers and materials to 

 be used as fertilizers taken under the provisions of this article as 



