New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 223 
(4) The chemical composition expressed in the following terms: 
(a) Percentage of nitrogen. 
(b) Percentage of available phosphoric acid or, in case of un- 
dissolved bone, total phosphoric acid. 
(c) Percentage of potash soluble in distilled water. 
These forms must be stated; other expressions in addition may 
be used. 
Filing statements and payment of license fees—A_ statement 
covering the points already indicated must be filed each year with 
the Commissioner of Agriculture before goods are offered for sale. 
At the same time the license fee of $20 for each brand is required. 
Requirements regarding inert nitrogenous materials—‘ No per- 
son shall sell, offer or expose for sale in this State leather or its 
products or other inert nitrogenous material in any form, as a 
fertilizer or as an ingredient of any fertilizer, unless an explicit 
statement of the facts shall be conspicuously affixed to every pack- 
age of such fertilizer and shall accompany every parcel or lot of 
same.” 
Publication of results of analysis— Samples of fertilizers are 
collected each year for analysis and the results are published at 
least once in each year together with such other information as 
may seem desirable. 
Justification for the fertilizer law.— The fact that the farmers 
of New York State expend for plant-food, in the form of com- 
mercial fertilizers, about $4,500,000 annually justifies the protection 
afforded by law, especially when it is kept in mind how much fraud 
has been known to exist when no such protection was given. 
General outline of work done.—Since July, 1890, there have 
been collected for analysis about 13,000 samples, representing about 
8,000 brands. During this time the Station has published over 
thirty fertilizer bulletins, containing about 1,600 pages. The num- 
ber of each bulletin printed has varied from about 5,000 in 1890 
to over 40,000 in recent years, and hence the aggregate number of 
pages distributed among farmers of the State on this one subject 
amounts to about 45,000,000 pages. In addition to the analyses of 
fertilizers, the publications have covered the discussion of such 
important, practical subjects as the description of materials used as 
fertilizers, the methods of purchasing and using fertilizers, the 
composition and value of various fertilizing materials, of farm 
crops, etc. Ten or twelve years ago there was a very great de- 
mand for information of this kind and untold good was ac- 
