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^ain, unless the manufacturer or importer shall have provided 

 labels or statements and shall have paid the fee. Sections 1 and 3. 



2, The law also requires, in case of any fertilizer selling at ten 

 dollars or more per ton, that a certified statement of composition, 

 7iet weight in package, etc., shall be filed with the Director of the 

 Experiment Station, and that a sealed sample shall be deposited 

 with him. Section 2. 



3. It is also provided that every person in the State who sells 

 any commercial fertilizer of lohatever kind or price shall annually 

 report certain facts to the Director of the Experiment Station, 

 and on demand of the latter shall deliver a sample for analysis. 

 Section 4. ' 



Here follows the full text of the law : 



AN ACT CONCERNING COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. 



General Assembly, 

 January Session, A. D. 1882. 



J3e it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 

 General Assembly convened : 



Section 1. Every person or company who shall sell, offer, or 

 expose for sale, in this State, any commercial fertilizer or manure, 

 the retail price of which is ten dollars, or more than ten dollars 

 per ton, shall affix conspicuously to every package thereof a 

 plainly printed statement clearly and truly certifying the number 

 of net pounds of fertilizer in the package, the name, brand, or 

 trade-mark under which the fertilizer is sold, the name and ad- 

 dress of the manufacturer, the place of manufacture, and the 

 chemical composition of the fertilizer, expressed in the terms and 

 manner approved and currently employed by the Connecticut 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. 



If any such fertilizer be sold in bulk, such printed statement 

 shall accompany and go with every lot and parcel sold, offered, 

 or exposed for sale. 



Sec. 2. Before any commercial fertilizer, the retail price of 

 which is ten dollars, or more than ten dollars per ton, is sold, 

 offered, or exposed for sale, the manufacturer, importer, or party 

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

 Connecticut, shall file with the Director of the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station two certified copies of the statement 



