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section of this act, or with a label stating that said fertilizer contains 

 a larger percentage of any one or more of the constituents mentioned 

 in said section tiian 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. 



Section 6. This act shall not afiE'ect parties manufacturing, 

 im|)orting or purchasing fertilizers for their own use and not to sell 

 in this Commonwealth. 



Section 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 results 

 from time to time, with such additional information as the circum- 

 stances render advisable, provided such information relates only to 

 the composition of the fertilizer or fertilizer material inspected. 

 Said director is hereby authorized in person or by deputy to take a 

 sample, not exceeding two pounds in weight, for analysis, fiom any 

 lot or package of fertilizer or fertilizer material which may be in the 

 possession of an}' 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 num- 

 ber 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 

 fertdizer or material sampled, the name of the party fiom whose 

 stock the sample was drawn, and the time and place of drawing ; and 

 said lal)el shall also be signed by the director or his deputy and by 

 the part}' or parties in interest, or their representatives present at 

 the drawing and sealing of said sample ; one of said duplicate sam- 

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

 whose stock was sampled. All parties violating this act shall be 

 pro-ecuted by the director of said station. 



Section 8. Chapter two hundred and ninety-six of the acts of the 

 year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight is hereb}' repealed. 



Section 9. This act shall take effect on the first day of Novem- 

 ber in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six. 



\_Approved April 17, 1896. 



