COMMERCIAT. FeBTILIZKKT, I5f 



other inert nitrogenous material in any form, as a commercial 

 fertilizer or material to be used as a fertilizer or as an ingre- 

 dient of any fertilizer, unless an explicit statement of the facts 

 shall be affixed to every package in a conspicuous place on the out- 

 side thereof and shall accompany every parcel or lot which may be 

 sold, offered or exposed for sale in bulk. 



§ 224. Commissioner of agriculture to take samples for analysis; 

 analysis to be made by director of experiment station. — The com- 

 missioner of agriculture shall at least once in each year trans- 

 mit to the IN'ew York agricultural experiment station for analysis 

 at least one sample, to be taken in the manner hereinafter pre- 

 scribed, of the different brands of commercial fertilizers and ma- 

 terials to be used as fertilizers the selling price of which exceed 

 five dollars per ton, which are or may be sold, offered or exposed 

 for sale under the provisions of this article. The said commis- 

 sioner of agriculture or his duly authorized rep- 

 Taking of sample, resentatives in taking samples shall take them 

 in triplicate in the presence of at least one wit- 

 ness and in the presence of such witness shall seal such sampler 

 and shall at the time of taking tender, and if accepted, deliver to 

 the person apparently in charge one of such samples, one of the 

 other samples the commissioner of agriculture shall cause to be 

 analyzed. When samples are taken from fertilizers in bags, a 

 tube shall be used and it shall be inserted at one end of the bag 

 and shall pass substantially the entire length of the bag, so as to 

 take a core of the material being sampled from substantially the 

 entire length of the bag. Samples thus taken from individual 

 bags shall be thoroughly mixed and the official samples be taken 

 from the mixture so drawn. Samples of fertilizer taken as herein 

 provided shall be taken from at least five per centum of the sepa- 

 rate original packages in the lot for the mixture from which the 

 official samples shall be taken. 'No action shall be maintained for 

 a violation of the provisions of this article based upon an analysis 

 of samples taken otherwise than as herein provided or taken from 

 less than five separate original packages. The director of said 

 experiment station shall continue to analyze or cause to be 

 analyzed such samples of commercial fertilizers and materials to 

 be used as fertilizers taken under the provisions of this article as 

 shall be submitted to him for that purpose by the commissioner of 

 agriculture and shall report such analysis to the commissioner of 



