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a statement of the chemical composition of the fertilizers 

 together with provisions for periodical analysis of brands 

 by State Officials. The laws of many of the states contain 

 clauses providing for the payment by the manufacturers 

 of license fees in one form or another, sufficient to make 

 the enforcement of the law self-supporting. Penalties 

 of various degrees of severity are usually prescribed for 

 violations of the laws. Periodical publications are in 

 many cases required of the State Official in charge of the . 

 administration of the fertilizer law. 



The New Hampshire Law entitled "An Act to Regu- 

 late the Sale of Fertilizers" was first passed in 1901, and 

 last amended in 1917. The law applies to all fertilizer 

 materials offered for sale whether mixed materials in the 

 form of complete fertilizers or unmixed materials as acid 

 phosphate, tankage, sulphate of ammonia, etc. Under 

 the provisions of this law every manufacturer or dealer 

 who shall sell or offer for sale any fertilizer material shall 

 furnish with each lot or package a clearly printed state- 

 ment certifying the number of net pounds, the brand 

 name under which it is sold, the name and address of the 

 manufacturer and a chemical analysis stating the mini- 

 mum percentages of nitrogen, of water soluble potash, of 

 total phosphoric acid and of available phosphoric acid. 

 No person shall sell or offer for sale any pulverized 

 leather, hair or wool waste, peat, garbage tankage, or 

 any inert material whatsoever, without an explicit printed 

 statement of the fact conspicuously fixed to every package 

 of such material. 



The state official in charge of the administration of the 

 fertilizer law is the Commissioner of Agriculture. 



FERTILIZER TONNAGE. 



The American Fertilizer Handbook for 1926 gives 

 7,464,824 tons as the total amount of fertilizer materials 

 manufactured in the United States and imported into 



