Section 8. All samples of commercial fer- 



Sampling tilizers taken for analysis shall be of not less 



of fertilizers. than substantially one and one-half pomids 



in weight, and every sample shall be taken, 

 \vhene\'er the circumstances conveniently permit, in the presence 

 of the person selling or offering or exposing for sale the fertilizer 

 sampled, or of a representative of such person. Broken packages 

 shall not be sampled, and all samples shall be taken from substan- 

 tially ten per cent of the fertilizer to be sampled, except that in the 

 case of a fertilizer sold or offered or exposed for sale in bulk ten 

 single samples shall be taken from as many different portions of the 

 lot. All samples taken shall be thoroughly mixed and divided in- 

 to two nearly equal samples, placed in suitable vessels, and marked 

 and sealed. Both shall be retained by the director, but one shall 

 be held intact by him for the period of one year at the disposal of 

 the person named in the label of the fertilizer sampled. 



Section 9. Any person hindering or ob- 

 Penalty for ob- structing the director of the Massachusetts 

 structing director or Agricultural Experiment Station, or any in- 

 deputy. spector or deputy of the said director, in the 



Prosecutions at discharge of the authority or duty conferred 

 discretion of direc- or imposed by any provision of this act and 

 tor. any person violating any provision of sec- 



tions one, two, three, four and five of this act 

 shall be fined not less than fifty dollars and not more than two 

 hundred dollars for each offence. It shall be the duty of the said 

 director to see that the provisions of this act are complied with, 

 and he may, in his discretion, prosecute or cause to be prosecuted 

 any person violating any provision of this act. But no complaint 

 based upon an analysis of samples shall be made for any such vio- 

 lation, if the samples were taken otherwise than as provided in this 

 act. And no complaint shall be made for failure of any fertilizer 

 or brand of fertilizer to meet the guaranteed analysis thereof if 

 the analysis of such fertilizer made by the director, or by his deputy 

 or deputies, shows the amounts of the constituents thereof to be 

 substantially equivalent to the percentages stated in the label of 

 the fertilizer. 



Section 10. All fees collected by the direc- 

 Analysis fees tor of the Massachusetts Agricultural Ex- 



turned over to periment Station imder the provisions of 

 treasurer. this act shall be turned over by him to the 



Accounts to be treasurer of the said station, and the amounts 

 audited. received and disbursed shall be kept in a 



separate account, and shall be audited and 

 reported, as are other moneys placed in charge of the trustees of 



