238 AGRICULTUKAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



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 fer- 

 tilizing ingredients : namely, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, 

 contained or claimed to exist in said brand or fertilizer : irrovided^ 

 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 direc- 

 tor 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. 5. Any person selling, offering or exposing for sale, any 

 commercial fertilizer without the statement required by the Jirst 

 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. G. 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 : x>rovided, 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 



