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the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The money collected 

 under the provisions hereof shall be used under the authority of 

 the said director to meet the expenses incurred in carr^^ng out the 

 provisions of the act, and should there be a surplus, the surplus 

 shall be used in the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment vSta- 

 tion, under the authority of its director, for experiments and re- 

 search relative to soils, fertilizers and manures. 



Section 11. In this act unless the context 

 Definition of terms, or subject-matter otherwise requires, 



"Agricultural lime" includes all the various 

 forms of lime intended or sold for fertilizing purposes. 



"Available phosphoric acid" means the sum of the soluble and 

 reverted phosphoric acid, except that, as applied to basic phos- 

 phatic slag, the tenii "available phosphoric acid" shall mean that 

 part of the phosphoric acid made soluble by the Wagner Method, 

 so-called, until such time as the Association of Official Agricultural 

 Chemists of North America shall adopt a method for basic phos- 

 phatic slag, after which it shall mean that part of the phosphoric 

 acid made soluble by the method of said association. 



"Brand" means any commercial fertilizer distinctive by reason 

 of name, trademark or guaranteed analysis or by any method of 

 marking. 



"Commercial fertilizer" includes every natural or artificial 

 manure containing nitrogen or phosphoric acid or potash or lime, 

 except the excrements and litter from domestic animals when sold 

 in their natural state ; but dried or partly dried manure, pulverized 

 or ground, shall be included as a commercial fertilizer. 



"Copy" means certified copy. 



"Fertilizer "means commercial fertilizer. 



"Importer" means a person who procures for sale in this com- 

 monwealth commercial fertilizers made in other states or countries. 



"Label" means printed label. 



"Lime" means calcium oxide (CaO). 



"Magnesia" means magnesium oxide (MgO). 



"Packages" includes sacks and bags and all other receptacles. 



"Person" includes a corporation or partnership or two or more 

 persons having a joint or common interest. 



"Phosphoric acid" means phosphoric anhydrid (P2O0.) 



"Potash" means potassium oxide (K2O). 



Section 12. Sections eleven to seventeen inclusive of chapter 

 fifty-seven of the Revised Laws and chapter two hundred and 

 eighty-nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and seven are 

 hereby repealed. 



Section 13. This act shall take effect on the first day of De- 

 cember in the year nineteen hundred and eleven. (Approved. May 

 4, 1911.) 



