216 HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



urer 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 state- 

 ment specified in section two the director of said station shall 

 issue certificates of compliance with this act. 



Sect. 4. No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale in 

 this Commonwealth any pulvei'ized leather, hair or wool Avaste, 

 raw, steamed, roasted or in any form as a fertilizer, or as an in- 

 gredient of any fertilizer or manure, without an explicit printed 

 certificate of the fact, said certificate to be conspicuously aflSxed 

 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 

 contains a larger percentage of any one or more of the constitu- 

 ents mentioned in said section than is contained therein, or re- 

 specting the sale of which all the provisions of the foregoing 

 section have not been fully complied with, shall forfeit fifty dol- 

 lars for the first offence and one hundred dollars for each subse- 

 quent 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 Commonwealth. 



Sect. 7. The director of the experiment 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 

 fertilizer material to be made annually, and shall publish the re- 

 sults from time to time, with such additional information as the 

 circumstances render advisable, provided such information relates 

 only to the composition of the fertilizer or fertilizer material in- 

 spected. 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 fertilizer material 

 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 froin 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 lirand of tlie fertilizer or material 

 sanii)k'd, the name of the pnrty from whose stock the sample was 



