146 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Sept., 



CHAPTER 130. 



An Act Concerning the Encouragement of the Sheep 



Industry. 



Section 1. The trustees of the Connecticut agricultural colle.ge 

 shall supervise and establish such distribution and demonstration flocks 

 of sheep throughout the state as they shall deem necessary, and con- 

 duct such experiments and investigations as may seem to them most 

 conducive to the encouragement of the sheep industry throughout the 

 state. Said trvistees are authorized to expend for this purpose a sum 

 of not more than ten thousand dollars annually, to be paid by the 

 treasurer on order of the comptroller from the funds in the state 

 treasury which have been received from dog licenses in accordance with 

 the provisions of section 3400 of the general statutes after payment of 

 the sums required by sections 3402 and 3414 of the general statutes. 



Sec. 2. This act shall take affect from its passage. 



CHAPTER 204. 



An Act Concerning the Registration and Sale of Commercial 



Fertilizers. 



Section 1. All persons, companies, manufacturers, dealers or agents, 

 before selling or offering for sale in this state any commercial fertilizer 

 or fertilizer materials except stable manure in its original condition, 

 shall brand or attach to each bag, barrel or package, the name and 

 address of the manufacturer and the guaranteed analysis of the com- 

 mercial fertilizer, giving the valuable constituents of the commercial 

 fertilizer in minimum percentages only. Only these items shall be 

 branded or attached to the package, preferably in the following order: 

 (1) Weight of each package, in pounds; (2) brand name or trademark; 

 (3) guaranteed analysis: (a) available phosphoric acid (per centum);' 

 (b) total phosphoric acid (per centum); (c) nitrogen (per centum); 

 (d) equivalent ammonia (per centum); (e) potash soluble in water 

 (per centum); (4) name and address of the manufacturer or of the 

 person who is responsible for the statements of the guarantee. In 

 bone meal, tankage or other organic products, and also in basic slag 

 and mineral phosphates, in which a large percentage of the phosphoric 

 acid is not available by laboratory methods, the phosphoric acid shall be 

 claimed as total phosphoric acid, unless it is desired to claim available 

 phosphoric acid instead, in which latter case the guarantee shall take 

 the form above set forth. A statement of the inclusion of leather in its 

 various forms, wool waste, hair or any inert nitrogenous material shall 

 be printed on the bag, unless, by processing, the availability of the 

 nitrogen of these materials has been rendered satisfactory as deter- 

 mined by the official methods of the association of official agricultural 

 chemists. When potash is derived from sulphate or carbonate of 

 potash, it may be so claimed in the markings on the package. No 

 claim or guarantee for less than eighty-two hundredths of one per 

 centum of nitrogen, or for less than one per centum of phosphoric acid, 

 or for less than one per centum of potash shall be regarded in the 

 registration or analysis of any commercial fertilizer. 



Sec. 2. Before any commercial fertilizer is sold, offered or exposed 

 for sale, the person who causes it to be sold, or offered for sale, within 

 this state shall file with the director of the Connecticut agricultural 

 experiment station, on forms to be supplied by said station, two certi- 

 fied copies of the statement prescribed in section one of this act, and a 



