A complete list of registrants, arranged in alphabetical order, is printed at the end 

 of this bulletin. The registered brands anal3'zed are shown in the tables representing 

 the various products. 



The responsibility for the registration of some brands of cottonseed meal sold as 

 fertilizer, as well as of some other fertilizing products handled in interstate traffic, 

 should be clearly understood by the local agent before he accepts an agency. An 

 effort will be made to induce the out-of-state shipper to assume the registration of the 

 products sold; but failing in this, the local agent or representative will be called upon 

 to pay both the registration and tonnage fees due the state. Information will be gladly 

 furnished at any time with respect to the status of any fertilizing product. 



COLLECTION OF SAMPLES. 



For a number of years it has been increasingly difficult to secure adequate sampling 

 of fertilizers for the reason that only relatively small stocks are carried by the local 

 agent, who naturally prefers to replenish his stock from time to time as the demand 

 warrants rather than to order at one time in anticipation of his wants and perhaps 

 be obliged to carry over a considerable quantity to the following season. Fertilizer 

 agents are not confined to business centers, but are widely scattered throughout the 

 country districts. Moreover, the personnel of these agents is a varying factor, the 

 great majority of them retaining an agency for only one or two seasons. In several 

 counties the larger portion of the fertilizer is sold direct to the consumer by traveling 

 representatives of the fertilizer company, and practically no stocks are carried for 

 distribution by local agents. Manj^ times delays in shipment and transportation 

 cause the fertilizer to arrive so late in the season that it is hauled directly from the 

 cars to the fields w^hereon it is used. From the above it wall be seen that in many 

 instances there is only a very limited time in which representative samples of some of 

 the brands may be secured and for this reason sampling agents were employed who 

 had the use of automobiles to facilitate the work. The sampling agents were 

 assigned to territories as follows: Mr. James T. Howard, Berkshire, Franklin, Hamp- 

 den and Hampshire counties; Mr. George H. Kelton, Middlesex and Worcester 

 counties; Mr. Everett H. Kelley, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Plymouth counties; 

 and Mr. H. Theron Wiggin, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk counties. 



The following data are presented wath reference to the season's fertilizer collection: 

 19,523 sacks w'ere sampled, representing 8,492 tons of fertilizer and fertilizing mate- 

 rials; 209 towns were visited; 1,476 samples, representing 472 distinct brands, were 

 drawn from stock carried by 464 agents or owners; 370 former fertilizer agents were 

 called upon, who had discontinued handling fertilizers. 



