256 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan 



file with the director of the Massachusetts agricultural experiment 

 station, :t certified copy of the statement named in section one of 

 this act, and shall also deposit with said director at his request a 

 sealed glass jar or bottle, containing not less than one pound of 

 the fertilizer, accompanied by an affidavit that it is a fair average 

 sample thereof. 



Sect. 3 The manufacturer, importer, agent or seller of any 

 brand of commercial fertilizer or material used for manurial pur- 

 poses, the retail price of which is ten dollars or more per ton, shall 

 pay for each brand, on or before the first day of May annually, to 

 the director of the Massachusetts agricultural experiment station, 

 an analysis fee of five dollars for each of the three following fer- 

 tilizing ingredients : namely, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, 

 contained or claimed to exist in said brand or fertilizer : provided, 

 that whenever the manufacturer or importer shall have paid the 

 fee herein required for any person acting as agent or seller for 

 such manufacturer or importer, such agent or seller shall not be 

 required to pay the fee named in this section ; and on receipt of 

 said analysis fees and statement specified in section two, the direc- 

 tor of said station shall issue certificates of compliance with this 

 act. 



Sect. 4. No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale in the 

 state of Massachusetts, any pulverized leather, raw, steamed, 

 roasted, or in any form as a fertilizer, or as an ingredient of any 

 fertilizer or manure, without an explicit printed certificate of the 

 fact, said certificate to be conspicuously affixed to every package 

 of such fertilizer or manure and to accompany or go with every 

 parcel or lot of the same. 



Sect. 5. Any person selling, offering or exposing for sale, any 

 commercial fertilizer without the statement required by the first 

 section of this act, or with a label stating that said fertilizer con- 

 tains a larger percentage of any one or more of the constituents 

 mentioned in said section than is contained therein, or respecting 

 the sale of which all the provisions of the foregoing section have 

 not been fully complied with, shall forfeit fifty dollars for the first 

 offence, and one hundred dollars for each subsequent offence. 



Sect. 6. This act shall not affect parties manufacturing, im- 

 porting or purchasing fertilizers for their own use, and not to sell 

 in this state. 



Sect. 7. The director of the Massachusetts agricultural experi- 

 ment station shall pay the analysis fees, as soon as received by 

 him, into the treasury of the station, and shall cause one analysis 

 or more of each fertilizer or material used for manurial purposes 

 to be made annually, and publish the results monthly, with such 



