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•of citrate of ammonia as determined by tlie methods agreed upon 

 by the American Society of Agricultural Chemists, and of potash 

 soluble in distilled water. A legible statement of the analysis of 

 the goods and of the person^ firm or corporation^ who have manu- 

 factured the same^ shall be printed on or attached to each package 

 of fertilizer offered for sale for use in this etate, and where fertilizers 

 are sold in bulk, to be used in this state, an analysis shall accompany 

 the same, with an affidavit that it is a true representation of the 

 contents of the article or articles. 



§ 2. Manufacturers residing in this state, and agents or sellers of 

 fertilizers made by persons residing outside the limits of this state, 

 shall between the first and twentieth days of July, in each year, 

 furnish to the director of the New York State Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station at Geneva, a list of the commercial fertilizers they 

 manufacture or offer for sale for use in this state, with the names or 

 brands by which they are known on the market, and the several 

 percentages of nitrogen or its equivalent of ammonia, of phosjohoric 

 acid, both soluble and available, and of potash either single or com- 

 bined, contained in said fertilizer, as called for in section one of this 

 act. Whenever any fertilizer or fertilizing ingredients are shipped 

 or sold in bulk, for use by farmers in this state, a statement must be 

 sent to the director of the Kew York State Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station at Geneva, giving the name of the goods so shipped, 

 and accompanied with an affidavit from the seller, giving an analysis 

 of such percentage guaranteed. 



§ 3. Whenever a correct chemical analysis of any fertilizer offered 

 for sale in this state shall show a deficiency of more than one- 

 third of one per centum of nitrogen or its equivalent of am- 

 monia, or one-half of one per centum of available phosphoric 

 acid or one-half of one per centum of potash soluble in distilled 

 water, such statements shall be deemed false within the meaning 

 of this act. This act shall apply to all articles of fertilizers offered 

 or exposed for sale for use in the state of New York, the selling 

 price of which is ten dollars per ton or higher, and of which they 

 are part or parcel, and of any element into which they enter as fer- 

 tilizing materials, among which may be enumerated nitrate of soda, 

 sulphate of ammonia, dissolved bone black and bone black undisr 

 solved, any phosphate rock, treated or untreated with sulphuric or 

 •other acids, ashes from whatever source obtained, potash salts of all 



