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[laws of 1888.] 



to exist in said brand or fertilizer : provided^ that whenever the 

 manufacturer or importer shall have paid tlie fee herein required for 

 any person acting 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 recipt of said analysis fees and state- 

 ment specified in section two, the director of said station shall issue 

 certificates of com|)liance with this act. 



Sect. 4. No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale in the 

 state of Massachusetts, any pule erized leather^ raic, steamed, roasted, 

 or ill any form as a fertilizer, or as an ingredient of any fertilizer or 

 manure, without an explicit printed certificate of the fact, said cer- 

 tificate 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. 



Sect. 5. Any person selling, offering or exposing for sale, any 

 commercial fertilizer without the statement required by the first 

 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 than 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 oft'ence, and one 

 hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. 



Sect. 6. This act shall not aft'ect parties manufacturing, import- 

 ing or purchasing fertilizers for their own use, and not to sell in this 

 state. 



Sect. 7. The director of the Hatch Experiment Station shall pay 

 the analysis fees, as soon as received by him, into the treasury of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, aud shall cause one analysis or 

 more of each fertilizer or material used for manurial purposes to be 

 made annually, and publish the residts monthly, with such additional 

 information as circumstances advise: provided, such information 

 relates only to the composition of the fertilizer or fertilizing material 

 inspected. Said director is hereby authorized in person or by de[)uty 

 to take a sample, not exceeding two pounds in weight, for aualj'sis, 

 from any lot or package of fertilizer or any material used for manu- 

 rial purposes which may be in the possession of 'Auy 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 number of packages which shall be not 



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