18 Vermont Agricultukal Report. 



// is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State 

 of Vermont: 



Section i. The term "commercial fertilizer" as used in this 

 act, shall be taken to mean compounds and manufactured sub- 

 stances containing-, or represented as containing-, two or more of 

 the ingredients mentioned in section three of this act, but shall 

 not apply to the separate ingredients used to manufacture the 

 same, or to bone meal, land plaster, lime, or any substance the 

 product of nature, which has not been compounded. 



Sec. 2. The term "importer," as used in this act, shall be 

 taken to mean all who procure or sell commercial fertilizers made 

 in other states. 



Sec. 3. Every lot or parcel of commercial fertilizer, sold, 

 offered or exposed for sale in this state, the retail price of which 

 is ten dollars or more per ton, shall be accompanied by a plainly 

 printed and legible statement, clearly and truly certifying the 

 number of net pounds of fertilizer in a package, the name, brand 

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

 address of the manufacturer or importer, and a chemical analysis 

 stating the minimum percentages of nitrogen, of potash soluble 

 in distilled water, and of soluble, reverted, insoluble, available 

 and total phosphoric acids, and the maximum percentage of 

 chlorin, or such of these as are claimed to be present ; the several 

 constitutents to be determined by the methods adopted at the 

 time by the association of official agricultural chemists. 



Sec. 4. The manufacturer, importer, agent or seller of a 

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

 more per ton, shall, before the same is sold,, offered or exposed 

 for sale, annually in the month of December, pay the director of 

 the Vermont agricultural experiment station a license fee of 

 one hundred dollars. Said director, on the receipt of such fee, 

 shall issue to such licensee a license permitting the sale in the 

 state of not to exceed five brands of commercial fertilizer, all of 

 which brands shall be the product of the licensee. If any manu- 

 facturer, importer, agent or seller desires to sell, offer or expose 

 for sale more than this number of brands, he shall annually in the 

 month of December pav a license fee of twenty dollars for each 

 and every brand or kind of commercial fertilizer, bearing a dis- 

 tinctive name, brand or trade mark, which said manufacturer, 

 importer, agent or seller is to sell, offer or expose for sale in ex- 

 cess of five ; provided that if said fertilizer is claimed to or does 

 contain phosphoric acid and either nitrogen or potash only, the 

 lecense fee shall be fifteen dollars. Said director, on the receipt 

 of each such fee, shall issue to such licensee a license for the 

 sale of the brand or kind of commercial fertilizer for which the 

 /ee is paid. 



