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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 fertilizer 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 

 provide a means for consuming all smoke and vapors arising from 

 such fertilizers during the process of manufacture. 



Sec. 7. Any person violating any provision of the foregoing 

 sections of this act shall be fined one hundred dollars for the first 

 offense, and two hundred dollars for each subsequent violation. 



Sec, 8. This act shall not affect parties manufacturing, import- 

 ing, or purchasing fertilizers for their own private use, and not to 

 sell in this State. 



Sec. 9. The director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station shall pay the analysis-fees received by him into the 

 treasury of the station, and shall cause one or more analyses of 

 each fertilizer to be made and published annually. Said director 

 is hereby authorized, in person or by deputy, to take samples for 

 analysis from any lot or package of manure or fertilizer which 

 may be in the possession of any dealer. 



Sec. 10. 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-office in the State, 



Sec, 11. Title sixteen, chapterfifteen, sections fifteen and sixteen, 

 and title twenty, chapter twelve, section five of the general stat- 

 utes, and chapter one hundred and twenty of the public acts of 

 1881, being an act concerning commercial fertilizers, are hereby 

 repealed. 



Sec. 12, This act shall take effect on the first day of Septem- 

 ber, 1882, 



