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named in section one of this act, and shall deposit with said 

 Director a sealed glass jar or bottle containing not less than one 

 pound of the fertilizer, accompanied by an affidavit that it is a 

 fair average sample thereof 



Sec. 3. The manufacturer, importer, agent, or seller of any- 

 commercial fertilizer, the retail price of which is ten dollars, or 

 more than ten dollars per ton, shall pay, on or before the first of 

 May, annually, to the Director of the Connecticut Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, an analysis fee of ten dollars for each of the 

 fertilizing ingredients contained or claimed to exist in said fertil- 

 izer: provided, that whenever the manufacturer or importer shall 

 have paid the fee herein required for any persons acting as agents 

 or sellers for such manufacturer or importer, such agents or sellers 

 shall not be required to pay the fee named in this section. 



Sec. 4. Every person in this State who sells, or acts as local 

 agent for the sale of any commercial fertilizer of whatever kind 

 or price, shall annually, or at the time of becoming such seller or 

 ao"ent, report to the director of the Connecticut Agricultural 

 Experiment Station his name, residence, and post-office address, 

 and the name and brand of said fertilizer, with the name and 

 the address of manufacturer, importer, or party from whom such 

 fertilizer was obtained, and shall, on demand of the director of 

 the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, deliver to said 

 director a sample suitable for analysis of anjrsuch fertilizer or 

 manure then and there sold or offered for sale by said seller or 



agent. 



Sec. 5. No person or party shall sell, offijr, or expose for sale, 

 in the State of Connecticut, any pulverized leather, raw, steamed, 

 roasted, or in any form, as a fertilizer or as an ingredient of any 

 fertilizer or manure, without explicit printed certificate of the 

 fact, such certificate to be conspicuously affixed to every package 

 of such fertilizer or manure, and to accompany and go with every 

 parcel or lot of the same. 



Sec. 6. Every manufacturer of fish guano, or fertilizers of 

 which the principal ingredient is fish or fish-mass from which the 

 oil has been extracted, shall, before manufacturing or heating the 

 same, and within thirty-six hours from the time such fish or mass 

 has been delivered to him, treat the same with sulphuric acid or 

 other chemical, approved by the director of said Experiment 

 Station, in such quantity as to arrest decomposition : provided, 

 however^ that in lieu of such treatment such manufacturers may 



