560 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



which consist of other and cheaper materials, said label shall give 

 a correct general statement of the composition and ingredients of 

 the fertilizer it accompanies. 



Sect. 2. Before any commercial fertilizer, the retail price of 

 which is ten dollars or more per ton, is sold, offered or exposed for 

 sale, the impoi'ter, manufacturer or party who causes it to be sold 

 or offered for sale within the state of Massachusetts, shall file with 

 the director of the Massachusetts agricultural experiment station, 

 a 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 fer- 

 tilizer, 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 fertiliz- 

 ing 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 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 fer- 

 tilizer 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, or 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. 



