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director 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. o. 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 

 additional information as circumstances advise : provided, such 

 information relate 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 represent- 

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

 said duplicate samples shall be retained by the director and the 



