148 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Sept.^ 



weight from any brand of fertilizer. The director of said station or 

 his duly authorized representatives shall take all samples in duplicate 

 and where possible in the presence of at least one witness, and in the 

 presence of such witness shall seal the samples, and shall at the time 

 of taking tender and, if accepted, deliver to the person apparently in 

 charge one of such samples; the other sample the director of said 

 station 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 sub- 

 stantially the entire length of the bag. Samples thus taken from in- 

 dividual bags shall be thoroughly mixed, and the official samples, 

 shall be taken from the mixture so drawn by the method known as 

 "quartering." Samples of fertilizer taken as herein provided shall be 

 taken froni at least five per centum of the separate original unopened 

 packa.ges in the lot, for the mixture from which the official samples 

 shall be taken. If less than one hundred bags are in the lot, at least 

 five bags shall be sampled; if less than five bags, all shall be sampled. 

 'Broken packages shall not be sampled. In no case shall a sample be 

 official, or one upon which legal action can be instituted, unless it shall 

 have been taken either by a duly authorized inspector, as specified 

 above, or in the presence of two competent disinterested witnesses who 

 shall certify under oath that the sample was drawn exactly as re- 

 quired by the provisions of this act. The official methods of the asso- 

 ciation of official agricultural chemists in force at the time shall be 

 followed in all statements of guaranties, sampling and analytical work 

 in connection with administering the provisions hereof. The director 

 shall issue at least one bulletin or report annually, setting fort^ the 

 analyses of fertilizers made under the provisions of this act and such 

 other information concerning the operation or violations of the law, or 

 otherwise pertaining to the sale, composition and agricultural value of 

 fertilizers as he may consider expedient. 



Sec. 6. The term "commercial fertilizers" shall be construed to 

 mean any and every substance imported, manufactured, prepared or 

 sold for fertilizing or manuring or soil amendment purposes, except 

 barnyard manure and stable manure which have not been artificially 

 treated or manipulated, marl and lime. Cottonseed meal, rapeseed 

 meal, castor pomace and all other vegetable products used as fertilizers, 

 including the ashes of cotton hulls and wood ashes, shall be included 

 as fertilizers within the meaning of this act and separate analysis 

 fees shall be paid on each different grade which is sold or offered for 

 sale in the state. The person responsible for paying the fees above 

 prescribed may deduct from the total tonnage sold such sales of cotton- 

 seed meal or other vegetable products as are made to anyone who gives 

 a written certificate on a form supplied by the said Connecticut agri- 

 cultural experiment station stating that the material bought by him 

 was to be used exclusively for feed and not for fertilizer. Such certif- 

 icate shall be filed with the director of said station with the report of 

 tonnage sold. The term "available phosphoric acid" means the sum 

 of the water-soluble and citric-soluble phosphoric acid determined by 

 the methods referred to in section five of this act. The term "phos- 

 phoric acid" means phosphoric anhydride (P2 O5). and the term 

 ■■potash" means potassium oxide (Ko ^)- 



Sec. 7. Any person who shall sell any commercial fertilizer for 

 which the required statement of tonnage sold has not been made or 

 without having paid the fees required by the provisions of section 

 three, or shall have rendered any false statements, or shall not permit 

 the director or his deputy to verify the statement of tonnage sold, or 



