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cultural Experiment Station two certified copies of the statement 

 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 Drice of which is ten dollars or 



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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 ingredientsf contained or claimed to exist in said fertil- 

 izer : provided, that whenever the manufacturer or importer 

 shall have paid the fee hei'ein required for any pei'sons 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 

 agent, report to the director of the Connecticut Agricultural 

 Experiment Station his name, residence, and post-office ad<iress, 

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

 address of the 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 any such fertilizer or 

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

 agent.J 



Sec. 5. No person or party shall sell, offer, 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 



* The analysis of samples sent in accordance with section two is discretionary 

 with the Station. Such samples are intended for preservation as manufacturers' 

 standards. 



f The Station understands " the fertilizing ingredients" to be those whose 

 determination in an analysis is necessary for a valuation, viz : Nitrogen, Phos- 

 phoric acid and Potash. ■ The analysis-fees in case of any fertilizer will therefore 

 be ten, twenty or thirty dollars, according as one, two or three of these ingredi- 

 ents are contained or claimed to exist in the fertilizer. On receipt of statements, 

 samples and analysis-fees, the Station will issue Certificates of compliance with 

 the law. 



X Blanks for Dealers' Reports will be mailed to applicants. 



