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the package, the name, brand or trade-mark under which the fertili- 

 zer is sold, the name and address of the manufacturer or importer, 

 the location of the factory, and a chemical analysis stating the per- 

 centage of nitrogen, 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 

 fertilizers which consist of other and cheaper materials said label 

 shall give a correct general statement of the composition and ingre- 

 dients of the fertilizer it accompanies. 



Section 2. Before any commercial fertilizer is sold or offered or 

 exposed for sale tlie importer, manufacturer or party who causes it 

 to be sold or offered for sale within this Commonwealth shall file 

 with the director of the Hatch experiment station of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College 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 fertilizer, accompanied by an affidavit that it is a fair 

 average sample thereof. 



Section 3. The manufacturer, importer, agent or seller of any 

 brand of commeicial fertilizer or fertilizer material shall pay for 

 each brand, on or before the first day of May annually, to the direc- 

 tor of the experiment station, an analysis fee of five dollars for each 

 of the three following fertilizing ingredients: namely, nitrogen, 

 phosphorus and potassium, contained or claimed to exist in said 

 brand of fertilizer : provided, that whenever the manufacturer or 

 importer shall have paid the fee herein required for any person act- 

 ing 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 sec- 

 tion two the director of said station shall issue certificates of com- 

 pliance with this act. 



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

 Commonwealth any pulverized leather, hair or wool waste, 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. 



Section 5. Any person selling or offering or exposing for sale 

 any commercial fertilizer without the statement required by the first 



