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permit allovvinj^ the director or his deputy to examine the books of the 

 party registering the brand or brands, in ordor to verify, if desired, 

 the reports of said party as to the tonnage sold. On receipt of the 

 aforesaid statemcMits and on compliance with the other provisions of 

 this act, the director of said station shall issue a certillcate of registra- 

 tion for the fertilizer or fertilizers concerned, which shall be in force 

 until the succeeding December thirty-first, and he shall annually 

 publish a list of the l)rands so registered. 



Sec. 3. Kor the purpose of defraying the expenses connected with 

 the inspection of commercial fertilizers sold or offered for sale within 

 this state, all persons offering for sale commercial fertilizers within 

 the state shall, at the time of issuance of the certificate of re.:?istration 

 and on January tirst of each year, pay to the director of the Connecticut 

 agricultural experiment station an analysis fee of ten dollars for each 

 fertilizing ingredient contained or claimed to exist in each of such 

 fertilizers as they propose to sell during the year. The fertilizing in- 

 gredients on which fees shall be paid are nitrogen, phosphoric acid and 

 potash. On July 1, 1920, on January 1, 1921, and on the same dates 

 annually thereafter, every person offering for sale connmercial fertilizers 

 within the state shall make a statement under oath, which shall be filed 

 with the director of the Connecticut agricultural experiment station 

 and w'hich shall set forth the number of tons of two thousand pounds 

 of each fertilizer, fertilizer material, or materials sold by him as 

 fertilizers during the preceding six months. On July 1, 1920, and semi- 

 annually thereafter he shall pay to the director of said station an ad- 

 ditional fee of six cents per ton of two thousand pounds of fertilizer, 

 fertilizer material or materials used as fertilizer sold in said state in 

 accordance with the sworn statement required above; but when the 

 statements and payments above prescribed have been made on any 

 braAd of fertilizer by any person, no other such statements or payments 

 of analysis fees on said brand shall be required. Neither the director 

 nor any of his deputies shall disclose any information contained in said 

 tonnage statements, except in cases in which it is necessary to publish 

 such information for the enforcement of the provisions of this act. 

 •Nothing contained in this act shall apply to fertilizers passing through 

 the state in transit nor to the delivery of fertilizers or fertilzer ma- 

 terials to regular fertilizer factories to be used for manufacturing 

 purposes, nor to fertilizers and fertilizer chemicals sold to the Con- 

 necticut agricultural experiment station if used solely for experiments 

 for the advancement of the science of agriculture. 



Sec. 4. The payments required by the provisions of section three 

 of this act shall be paid by the director to the treasurer of said Con- 

 necticut agricultural experiment station and shall be expended in 

 defraying the expenses of inspecting and analyzing commercial fertiliz- 

 ers and in preparing the results for publication, and should there be a 

 surplus it shall be set aside as a separate fund to cover any deficiency 

 in the income necessary to defray said expenses in subsequent years. 

 If, at the end of five years, the amount of such surplus largely exceeds 

 the necessary cost of inspection, it shall be the duty of the director to 

 recommend the amendment of this act so that the income under this 

 act will not exceed the actual cost of properly inspecting and analyzing 

 commercial fertilizers. 



Sec. 0. The director of said station shall cause one or more 

 analyses to be made annually of all commercial fertilizers registered 

 in the state. The director and his authorized deputies shall have power 

 to enter any car, warehouse, store, building, boat, vessel or place sup- 

 posed to contain fertilizers, for the purpose of inspecting and sampling, 

 and shall have power to take a sample not exceeding two pounds in 



