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FERTILIZER LAWS, 



Section 139. Sale or exchange of commercial fertilizers. — Commercial ferti- 

 lizers must not be sold or exchanged without a license from the Commissioner, 

 authorizing the person making a sale or exchange to deal therein. All sales 

 or exchanges made without such license are void. 



Sec, 140. License. — On the payment of a fee of one dollar, the Commis- 

 sioner must issue license to any person or firm, or corporation, or association 

 ot persons, authorizing the sale or exchange of fertilizers during a season, 

 expiring on the thirtieth day of September of each year. 



*Sec. 141. Tags to be supplied; licensee. — The Commissioner must furnish 

 the licensee on application, tags to be attached to fertilizers sold or exchanged, 

 of the kind and description he is required by subdivision 17 of section 137 to 

 prepare, on the payment to him of fifty cents for a number sufficient to tag 

 a ton of fertilizers. Before selling or exchanging, or offering to sell or exchange 

 fertilizers, the licensee must attach one of the tags to each bag, barrel or package 

 thereof, and a sale or exchange of fertilizers, not so tagged, is void. 



Sec. 142. Fertilizers to be submitted to Commissioner. — Before oftering a fer- 

 tilizer for sale or exchange, tlie person proposing to sell or exchange must 

 submit to the Commissioner a written or printed statement setting forth — 



1. The name and brand undtr which such fertilizer is to be sold or ex- 

 changed, the number of pounds contained in the bag, barrel or package, in 

 which it is to be put upon the market, the name or names of the manufac- 

 turers, and the place of manufacturing. 



2. A .statement setting forth the amount of the named ingredients which 

 they ail' willing to guarantee such fertilizer to contain. First, nitrogen; 

 second, waier soluble phosphoiic acid; third, citrate soluble phosphoric 

 acid; fourth, acid soluble phosphoiic acid; fifth, potash ; and such state- 

 ment shall be held to constitute a guarantee to the purchaser that every 

 package of such fertilizer contains not le.«s than the amount of each ingr-ed- 

 ient set forth in the statement, and when such statement sets forth the max- 

 imum and minimum of any ingredient, the commercial value shall be esti- 

 mated upon the minimum alone, but this shall not preclude the party from 

 setting forth any father ingredients which the fertilizer may contain, which, 

 as well as the preceding, shall be embraced in the guarantee. 



Sec. 143. Fertilizers or chemicals for manufacluriny to be branded — All Fer- 

 tilizers, or chemica s for manufacturing or composting the same, offered for 

 sale, exchange or distribution, must have br-anded upon or attached to each 

 bag, barrel or package, in such manner as the commissioner may by regulation 

 establish, the true analysis of such fertilizer or chemical, as claimed b)' the 

 manufacturer, showing the percentage of valuable elements or ingredients 

 such fertilizer or chemical contains, and its commercial value, calculated upon 

 the standard of value of the principal ingredients as set foith in section 142, 

 as priced by the commissioner of agriculture at the beginning of each season, 

 and in every case the brand must specially set forth the percentage contained 

 in the fertilizer or chemical of the several ingredients specified in section 142 

 in the terms of that section. 



