1889.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 4. 561 



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 in- 

 formation relates only to the composition of the fertilizer or fertil- 

 izing material inspected. Said director is hereby authoi-ized 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 posses- 

 sion of any manufacturer, importer, agent or dealer ; but said 

 sample shall be di'awn in presence of said party or parties in in- 

 terest or their representative, and taken from 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 stools 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 representatives present at the 

 drawing and sealing of said samples ; one of said duplicate samples 

 shall be retained by the director and the other by the party whose 

 stock was sampled. All parties violating this act shall be prose- 

 cuted by the director of said station ; but it shall be the duty of 

 said director, upon ascertaining any violation of this act, to forth- 

 with notify the manufacturer or importer in writing, and give him 

 not less than thirty days thereafter in which to comply with the re- 

 quirements 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 made 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 Septem- 

 ber in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. \_A'[yproved 

 May 5, 1888. 



