﻿Commissioner 
  of 
  Agricultuke. 
  971 
  

  

  centages 
  set 
  forth 
  as 
  above 
  provided 
  shall 
  be 
  liable 
  to 
  seizure 
  

   and 
  condemnation, 
  and 
  when 
  condemned 
  shall 
  be 
  sold 
  by 
  the 
  said 
  

   Board 
  of 
  Trustees 
  for 
  the 
  exclusive 
  use 
  and 
  benefit 
  of 
  the 
  said 
  

   Clemson 
  Agricultural 
  College, 
  as 
  provided 
  in 
  section 
  1114." 
  The 
  

   selling, 
  offering 
  for 
  sale, 
  or 
  delivering 
  after 
  sale, 
  or 
  receiving 
  

   any 
  commercial 
  fertilizer 
  without 
  having 
  such 
  label 
  and 
  stamps, 
  

   as 
  hereinbefore 
  provided, 
  attached 
  thereto, 
  renders 
  the 
  offender 
  

   liable 
  to 
  a 
  fine 
  of 
  ten 
  dollars 
  for 
  each 
  separate 
  bag, 
  barrel 
  or 
  

   package 
  sold 
  or 
  offered 
  for 
  sale. 
  

  

  This 
  act 
  took 
  effect 
  August 
  1, 
  1898. 
  (Laws 
  1898, 
  l^o. 
  477.) 
  

  

  By 
  this 
  act, 
  in 
  section 
  1, 
  " 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Trustees 
  of 
  Clemson 
  

   Agricultural 
  and 
  Mechanical 
  College, 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  prevent 
  fraud 
  

   and 
  imposition 
  in 
  the 
  manufacture 
  and 
  sale 
  of 
  fertilizers 
  and 
  

   fertilizing 
  materials, 
  shall 
  cause 
  fertilizers 
  sold 
  or 
  offered 
  for 
  sale 
  

   within 
  the 
  State, 
  whether 
  manufactured 
  within 
  or 
  without 
  the 
  

   State, 
  to 
  be 
  inspected 
  to 
  determine 
  the 
  agricultural 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  

   same 
  as 
  applied 
  to 
  farms, 
  trucking 
  gardens, 
  orchards 
  and 
  crops 
  

   grovm 
  within 
  this 
  State." 
  

  

  Section 
  2. 
  Experiments 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  said 
  Trustees 
  of 
  

   said 
  college 
  with 
  the 
  several 
  kinds 
  of 
  fertilizers 
  and 
  fertilizing 
  

   materials 
  offered 
  for 
  sale 
  within 
  this 
  State, 
  and 
  shall 
  cause 
  the 
  

   result 
  of 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  said 
  fertilizers 
  and 
  fertilizing 
  materials 
  to 
  be 
  

   reported 
  and 
  have 
  said 
  reports 
  classified 
  and 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  

   bulletins 
  of 
  said 
  college. 
  

  

  Section 
  3. 
  One 
  or 
  more 
  persons 
  or 
  inspectors 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  ap- 
  

   pointed 
  by 
  said 
  Trustees, 
  who 
  shall 
  procure 
  samples 
  of 
  said 
  fer- 
  

   tilizers 
  and 
  fertilizing 
  materials, 
  and 
  forward 
  the 
  same 
  to 
  said 
  

   college 
  to 
  be 
  analyzed 
  and 
  experimented 
  with, 
  and 
  perform 
  such 
  

   other 
  duties 
  as 
  the 
  Board 
  may 
  direct. 
  The 
  said 
  Board 
  of 
  Trustees 
  

   shall 
  employ 
  an 
  analyst 
  skilled 
  in 
  agricultural 
  chemistry, 
  and 
  his 
  

   duties 
  are 
  specified 
  to 
  be 
  to 
  analyze 
  fertilizers 
  and 
  other 
  material; 
  

   carry 
  on 
  experiments 
  on 
  the 
  nutrition 
  and 
  growth 
  of 
  plants 
  and 
  

   such 
  other 
  investigations 
  as 
  the 
  Department 
  may 
  direct. 
  He 
  is 
  

   to 
  make 
  regular 
  reports 
  to 
  the 
  said 
  Department 
  of 
  all 
  analyses 
  

   and 
  experiments 
  made, 
  which 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  published 
  in 
  bulletins. 
  

  

  