Circular No. 13. March, 1908. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



DEPARTMENT OF PLANT AND ANIMAL CHEMISTRY. 



J. B. LINDSEY, Chemist. 



LAWS REGULATING THE SALE OF COMMERCIAL 

 FERTILIZERS IN MASSACHUSETTS. 



Acts and Resolves for 1896, Chapter 297. 



Be it enacted^ etc., as follows : 



Section i. Every lot or parcel of commercial fer- 

 Statements to tilizer or fertilizer material sold or offered or exposed 

 be attached to for sale within this Commonwealth shall be accompa- 

 packages. nied by a plainly printed statement, -clearly and truly 

 certifying the number of net pounds of fertilizer in 

 the package, the name, brand or trade-mark under which the fertilizer 

 is sold, the name and address of the manufacturer or importer, the 

 location of the factory, and a chemical analysis stating the percent- 

 age of nitrogen, of potash soluble in distilled water, and of phos- 

 phoric acid in available form soluble in distilled water and reverted, 

 as well as the total phosphoric acid. In the case of those fertilizers 

 which consist of other and cheaper materials said label shall give a 

 correct general statement of the composition and ingredients of the 

 fertilizer it accompanies. 



Sec. 2. Before any commercial fertilizer is sold or 



Certified state- offered or exposed for sale, the importer, manufac- 



fnent to be turer or party who causes it to be sold or offered for 



filed and sale within this Commonwealth shall file with the 



deposit of director of the Hatch* experiment station of 



sample. the Massachusetts agricultural college a certified copy 



of the statement named in section one of this act, 



and shall also deposit with said director at his request, a sealed glass 



jar or bottle containing not less than one pound of the fertilizer, 



accompanied by an affidavit that it is a fair average sample thereof. 



* Recently changed to Massachusetts. 



