tion of the fertilizer or fertilizer material inspected. Said director 

 is hereby authorized in person or by deputy to take a sample, 

 not exceeding two pounds in weight, for analysis, from any 

 lot or package of fertilizer or fertilizer material which may be in the 

 possession of any 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 less than ten per cent of the whole 

 lot inspected, and shall be thoroughly mixed and then divided into 

 two equal samples and placed in glass vessels, and carefully sealed 

 and a label placed on each, stating the name or brand of the fertili- 

 zer or material sampled, the name of the party from whose stock the 

 sample was drawn, and the time and place of drawing ; and said 

 label shall also be signed by the director or his deputy and by the 

 party or parties in interest, or their representatives present at the 

 drawing and sealing of said sample ; one of said duplicate samples 

 shall be retained by the director and the other by the party whose 

 stock was sampled. All parties violating this act shall be prosecuted 

 by the director of said station. 



Sec. 8. Chapter two hundred and ninety-six of the acts of the 

 year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight is hereby repealed. 



Sec. 9. This act shall take effect on the first day of November 

 in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six. 



[Approved April 17, i8g6. 



Acts and Resolves for 1907 (Chapter 289.) 



Be it enacted ete. as foi/ojvs : 



Section i. The bulletins or other publications of 

 Publication the Massachusetts agricultural experiment station 

 of valuations, containing infomialion about fertilizers shall, in all 

 cases, state the dealers' cash price per ton for such 

 fertilizers, and the value per ton of the ingredients of the same, and 

 the percentage of difference between the said price and the said 

 value. 



Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



[Approved April tt, igoy. 



