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Board of Control of this Station cooperating with the acting 

 director who had had practical charge of the execution of the old 

 law. In framing the new act, advantage was taken of the ex- 

 perience gained in trying to enforce the old statute. 



After receiving the most careful attention in every phase of 

 its preparation, the new law was introduced in the Assembly on 

 February 27, 1896, by Hon. M. V. B. Ives and was in due time 

 passed both branches of the Legislature. It received the sig- 

 nature of Governor Morton and thus became a law on May 28. 



In order that manufacturers and consumers of fertilizers may 

 fully understand the provisions of the new fertilizer law at the 

 earliest practicable moment, we give below a copy of the law 

 with such explanations of special points as may make its pro- 

 visions understood beyond reasonable doubt. 



THE NEW FERTILIZER LAW OF NEW YORK. 

 Chap. 955. 



Approved by the Governor May 28, 1896. Passed, three-fifths 



being present. 



An Aot 



For the protection and education of farmers and manufacturers 

 in the purchase and sale of fertilizers. 



The People of the State of Neto York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. Every person who shall sell, offer or expose for 

 sale in this state any commercial fertilizer or any material to 

 be used as a fertilizer, the selling price of which exceeds ten 

 dollars per ton, shall stamp on or aflSx to each package of such 

 fertilizer, in a conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a plainly 

 printed statement which shall certify as follows: 



(1) The number of net pounds of fertilizer in the package sold 

 or offered for sale; 



(2) The name, brand or trade-mark under which the fertilizer 

 is sold; 



