EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 239' 



remaining on hand at the close of the fiscal year shall be placed to the 

 credit of the experimental fund of said board. 



Sec. 6. Any person or persons who shall sell or ofifer for sale any 

 commercial fertilizer in this State without first complying with the pro- 

 visions of sections, one, two, and three of this act, or who shall attach or 

 cause to be attached to any such package or fertilizer an analysis stating 

 that it contains a larger percentage of any one or more of the constitu- 

 ents or ingredients named in section one of this act than it really does 

 contain shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than one hundred 

 dollars for the first offense, and not less than three hundred dollars for 

 every subsequent offense, and the offender shall also be liable for damages 

 sustained by the purchaser of such fertilizer on account of such misrepre- 

 sentation. 



Sec. 7. The State Board of Agriculture by any duly authorized agent 

 is hereby authorized to select from any package of commercial fertilizer 

 exposed for sale in this State, a quantity not exceeding two pounds, for 

 a sample, such sample to be used for the purposes of an official analysis 

 and for comparison with the certificate filed with the secretary of the 

 State Board of Agriculture and with the certificate affixed to the package 

 on sale. 



Sec. 8. All suits for the recovery of fines under the provisions of this 

 act shall be brought under the direction of the State Board of Agriculture. 



Approved March 10, 1885. 



The attention of manufacturers is called to Section 2 of the above law 

 which requires to be filed with the secretary of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture a copy of analysis and certificate and also a sealed sample of the 

 fertilizer before such fertiliser is sold or offered for sale. 



Section 3 provides that on or before May 1st of each year the license 

 fee shall also be deposited with the secretary. It is of mutual interest to 

 the farmer and manufacturer that the Bulletin be published in time for 

 the fall trade in fertilizers. 



chemicals. 



All chemicals that are applied to the soil, such as sulphate of potash, 

 muriate of potash, kainit, sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda or nitrate 

 of potash, are considered as coming under the head of commercial fer- 

 tilizers and as such are subject to the same conditions as other fertilizers. 

 The object of the law is the protection of the farmers and this cannot be 

 given unless the entire field is covered. Dealers in these chemicals should, 

 see that they are properly labeled and licensed. 



LEGAL GOODS. 



The fertilizers, the analyses of which appear in this Bulletin, are the 

 only fertilizers that can be lawfully sold in this State. Farmers and the 

 granges should co-operate with the Station in securing evidence and 

 samples of goods unlawfully on sale and by so doing the fertilizer law 

 will fulfill the object for which it was intended; that is, the protection of 

 the farmers. 



Dealers in handling fertilizers should see that goods offered for sale 

 bear the required license. If goods are offered for sale the analysis of 



