1889.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT— No. 4. 559 



KEW LAWS 



RE&ULATION OF THE SALE OF COfflERCIAL FERTILIZERS. 



Work in the Chemical Department. 



I. Fertilizer Laws and Fertilizer Analyses. 

 II. Miscellaneous Analyses. 



The Legislature of 1888, at the suggestion of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, has enacted a new law, entitled, " An 

 Act to regulate the Sale of Commercial Fertilizers," chapter 

 296. This Act, which has been in operation since Sept. 1, 

 1888, assigns the supervision of the sale of commercial fer- 

 tilizers to the director of the Massachusetts State Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station at Amherst, Mass. 



The provisions of the Act are as follows : — 



[Chap. 296.] 



An Act to regulate the sale of commercial fertilizers. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Every lot or parcel of commercial fertilizer or 

 material used for manurial purposes, sold, offered or exposed for 

 sale within this Commonwealth, the retail price of which is ten 

 dollars or more per ton, shall be accompanied by a plainly printed 

 statement, clearly and truly certifying the number of net pounds 

 of fertilizer in the package, the name, brand or trade mark under 

 which the fertilizer is sold, the name and address of the manu- 

 facturer or importer, the place of manufacture, and a chemical 

 analysis stating the percentage of nitrogen or its equivalent in 

 ammonia, of potash soluble in distilled water, and of phosphoric 

 acid in available form soluble in distilled water and reverted, as 

 well as the total phosphoric acid. In the case of those fertiUzers 



