1892.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 33. 257 



additional information as circumstances advise : provided, such 

 information relates only to the composition of the fertilizer or 

 fertilizing material inspected. Said director is hereby authorized 

 in person or by deputy to take a sample, not exceeding two pounds 

 in weight, for analysis, from any lot or package of fertilizer or 

 any material used for manurial purposes which may be in the 

 possession of any manufacturer, importer, agent or dealer ; but 

 said sample shall be drawn in the presence of said party or parties 

 in interest or their representative, and taken from a parcel or a 

 number of packages which shall be not less than ten per cent, of 

 the whole lot inspected, and shall be thoroughly mixed and then 

 divided into two equal samples and placed in glass vessels and 

 carefully sealed and a label placed on each, stating the name or 

 brand of the fertilizer or material sampled, the name of the party 

 from whose stock the sample was drawn and the time and place 

 of drawing, and said label shall also be signed by the director or 

 his deputy and by the party or parties in interest or their represen- 

 tatives present at the drawing and sealing of said sample ; one of 

 said duplicate samples shall be retained by the director and the 

 other by the party whose stock was sampled. All parties violat- 

 ing this act shall be prosecuted by the director of said station ; 

 but it shall be the duty of said director, upon ascertaining any 

 violation of this act, to forthwith notify the manufacturer or im- 

 porter in writing, and give him not less than thirty days thereafter 

 in which to comply with the requirements of this act, but there 

 shall be no prosecution in relation to the quality of the fertilizer 

 or fertilizing material if the same shall be found substantially 

 equivalent to the statement of analysis made by the manufacturer 

 or importer. 



Sect. 8. Sections eleven to sixteen inclusive of chapter sixty 

 of the Public Statutes are hereby repealed. 



Sect. 9. This act shall take effect on the first day of September 

 in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. [Approved May 

 3, 1888.] 



Instructions to Manufacturers, Importers, Agents and Sellers of 

 Commercial Fertilizers or Materials Used for Manurial Pur- 

 poses in Massachusetts. 



1. An application for a certificate of compliance with 

 the regulations of the trade in commercial fertilizers and 

 materials used for manurial purposes in this State must be 

 accompanied : — 



First, with a distinct statement of the name of each brand 

 offered for sale. 



