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son or by deputy,, to enter any premises where commercial fer- 

 tilizers are stored, and to take a sample not exceeding two pounds 

 in weight for analysis from any lot or package of any commer- 

 cial fertilizer, or material used for manurial purposes, which may 

 be in the possession of any manufacturer, importer, agent or 

 dealer. Said sample shall be taken from a parcel or number 

 of packages which shall not be less than five percent of the 

 whole lot inspected, and shall be thoroughly mixed and placed in 

 a suitable vessel, carefully sealed, and a label placed thereon stat- 

 ing the name or brand of the fertilizer or material sampled, the 

 name of the party from whose stock the sample was drawn, and 

 the time and place of drawing, and said label shall be signed by 

 the director or his deputy, provided, however,, that whenever re- 

 quested said sample shall be taken in duplicate and carefully 

 sealed in the presence of the party or parties in interest or their 

 representative, in which case one of said duplicate samples shall 

 be retained by the director and one by the party whose stock 

 was sampled. The sample or samples retained by the director 

 shall be for comparison with the certified statement named in 

 section three of this act. 



Sec. lo. Said director shall cavise at least one sample of 

 each brand or kind of fertilizer collected as herein provided to 

 be analyzed annually and the results, together with such addi- 

 tional information in relation tO' .the character, composition, value 

 and use of said fertilizer as circumstances may advise, shall be 

 published in reports, bulletins, special circulars or elsewhere, as 

 promptly as the progress of the analyses will allow and as fre- 

 quently as time and means permit. 



Sec. II. Any person who shall hinder, impede or obstruct 

 the director or his deputy, while in the discharge of his duty 

 under this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and. 

 upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five 

 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 



Sec. 12. The director of the Vermont agricultural experi- 

 ment station upon ascertaining any violation of this act for the 

 first time shall forthwith notify the manufacturers or importers 

 in writing and give them not less than thirty days thereafter in 

 which to comply with the requirements of this act. In case of 

 second or subsequent violation by the same party or parties, or 

 in case, after a lapse of thirty days, the requirements of this act 

 remain still uncomplied with, it shall be the duty of said director 

 to notify the state's attorney of the county in which the violation 

 of this act is claimed to have occurred to the end that the violator 

 may be prosecuted; but there shall be no prosecution in relation 

 to the quality of the fertilizer or fertilizing material, if the same 



