RURAL LEGISLATION 



impost or duties on imports or exports, ex- 

 cept what may be absolutely necessary for 

 executing its inspection laws." By a series 

 of judicial decisions it has been determined 

 that a State has a right to enforce laws 

 affecting interstate commerce when traffic 

 in the articles thus modified or prohibited 

 affects the public welfare. When it is neces- 

 sary to have a police regulation to prevent 

 fraud in the traffic of an article or for the 

 purpose of guarding the public health or 

 morals, police laws, so called, may be en- 

 acted and enforced. Around this general 

 question there has waged a bitter contro- 

 versy which has occupied some of the best 

 legal minds and is one involving some diffi- 

 culty. 



FERTILIZER CONTROL 



One of the first of the "control" measures 

 to be enacted, and the one which has been 

 most universally adopted by the several 

 states, is the law requiring the manufacturer 

 and dealer in commercial fertilizers to guar- 

 antee the percentage of the so-called essen- 

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