10 THE CONNECTICUT AGRICULTUEAL 



The Bulletins of the Station have been only five in number, but 

 they have aggregated 34 carefully printed pages of the style of this 

 Report, and were stitched for convenience of preservation. These 

 have been sent as usual to all of the Agricultural Societies and 

 Farmers' Clubs and to all the newspapers in the State. They have 

 been reprinted in the Connecticut Fanner and in agricultural 

 papers in other States. In anticipation of the act requiring the 

 Station after Sept. 1, 1882, to "mail or cause to be mailed two 

 copies, at least," of its bulletins, to each post-office in the State, 

 6,000 copies of Bulletins 71 and 72 were distributed by post in 

 special envelopes addressed to the postmasters, on which was 

 printed the following : • 



" The Director of the Connecticut Agricultural Station shall, 

 from time to time, as bulletins of said Station may be issued, mail 

 or cause to be mailed two copies, at least, of such bulletins to each 

 post-oflice in the State." 



Section 10 of ^'■An Act concerning Commercial Fertilizers,''^ passed by the General 

 Assembly, to take effect Sept. 1, 1882. 



1^^ The postmaster will greatly serve the public by distribut- 

 ing the enclosed bulletins to farmers. ^^^^J 



Hereafter the Station will dispatch to every Connecticut post- 

 office a package of each of its bulletins, so that they may be uni- 

 versally accessible to the farmers of Connecticut. 



Fertilizer Law. 



The General Assembly at its last session passed a new. Fertilizer 

 Law, which went into effect Sept. 1, and which repeals and takes 

 the place of all previous legislation on this subject in this State. 



Since a full understanding of the provisions and ])enalties of this 

 law is important to all parties who buy or sell commercial fertil- 

 izers, attention is specially directed to the following points : 



1. In case of fertilizers that retail at ten dollars or more per ton, 

 the law of 1882 holds the seller responsible for affixing a correct 

 label or statement to every package or lot sold or offered, as well 

 as for the payment of an analysis fee of ten dollai'S for each fertil- 

 izing ingredient which the fertilizer contains or is claimed to con- 



