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DimEcTOR 
REPORT OF THE 
Factory and home-made fertilizers. 
VII. What constitutes a good fertilizer. 
VIII. Prices of raw materials. 
IX. How to determine the commercial value of fertilizers. 
X. Extent to which fertilizers are used in New York State. 
XI. Summary. 
‘As to the frequency with which these bulletins will Be plc 
to issue them at the intervals of one or two months. ‘ 
In order that some of the terms used in stating the results of analysi 
might be understood from the beginning, an explanation of suc 
ia that such explanation cannot be made clear and, at the same time, 
brief; that the terms can be satisfactorily comprehended only 
i ‘when approached in a systematic way. To those who carefully 
‘ follow the series of bulletins for several numbers, the analytical data 
will doubtless be intelligible in the future, if not at the outset. 
U\ 2. Copy or THE NEw York Strate Ferrinizer Law. 
4 LAWS OF NEW YORK —By Authority. ; 
49 [Every law, unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, 
a shall commence and take effect throughout the State, on and not 
before the twentieth day after the day of its final passage, as certified | 
ph.) by the Secretary of State. Section 12, title 4, chapter 7, part 1 
i Revised Statutes. ] 
ba CuarTer 437. : 
An. Act for the protection and education of farmers and a 
facturers in the purchase and sale of fertilizers. WA eh 
th Approved by the Governor May 24, 1890. Passed, three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and i 
Assembly, do enact as follows: 
: Section 1. All commercial fertilizers which shall be offered for sale, ¥ 
i to be used in this state, shall be accompanied by an analysis statin; 
the percentages contained therein of nitrogen or its Game 
ammonia, of soluble and available phosphoric acid, the availabl 
phosphoric acid either to be soluble in water or in a neutral solution — 
of citrate of ammonia as determined by the methods agreed upon by 
iy the American Society of Agricultural Chemists, and of potash solubl 
> in distilled water. A legible statement of the analysis of the good 
shall be printed on, or attached to each package of fertilizers offered 
