Section 3. The provisions of the printed label required 

 Definition of guar- by this act relating to the constituents contained in any 

 anteed analysis ; fertilizer shall be known and recognized as the guaranteed 

 Wagner method to analysis of such fertilizer, and the available phosphoric 

 be used for acid in basic phosphatic slag shall be stated in the label 



phosphatic slag, thereof on the basis of the results of an analysis by the 

 Wagner Method, so-called, until such time as the Associa- 

 tion of Official Agricultural Chemists of North America shall adopt a method of 

 analysis for basic phosphatic slag, after which the available phosphoric acid 

 shall be stated on the basis of an analysis by the method of said association. 



Section 4. Any manufacturer, importer, or other person 

 Definition of viola- selling or offering or exposing for sale in this common- 

 tion of previous wealth a commercial fertilizer or brand of commercial fer- 

 sections. tilizer, any constituent part of which is of a smaller per- 



centage than it is stated to be in the label of said fertilizer, 

 and any manufacturer, importer, or other person selling or offering or exposing 

 for sale in this commonwealth a fertilizer or brand of fertilizer with a label which 

 is untrue in any particular, shall be deemed to have committed a violation of 

 this act. 



Section 5. No manufacturer, importer, or other person 

 Certified copy of shall sell or offer or expose for sale in this commonwealth 

 label to be filed, any commercial fertilizer until he shall have tiled with the 

 Cost of analysis director of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment 

 fee and time of Station a copy certified by him to be a true copy of the 

 payment. label required by this act, excepting the item as to number 



of pounds, for every brand of fertilizer to be sold or offered 

 or exposed for sale in this commonwealth, and shall have paid to the said direc- 

 tor an annual analysis fee for every brand aforesaid as follows : eight dollars 

 for nitrogen, eight dollars for phosphoric acid, eight dollars for potash contained 

 or stated to be contained in any such brand of fertilizer, and twelve dollars for 

 every brand of agricultural lime except gas-house lime. The certified copy of 

 the label of every brand of fertilizer to be sold or offered or exposed for sale in 

 this commonwealth shall be filed with, and the proper analysis fee for every such 

 brand shall be paid to, the director of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station prior to the first day of January of the calendar year in which the 

 brand is to be sold or offered or exposed for sale. But should a n)anufacturer, 

 importer, or other person desire in any year to sell or to offer or expose for sale 

 in this commonwealth any brand of commercial fertilizer in respect of which the 

 requirements of this section as to the filing of a copy of the label thereof and the 

 payment of the analysis fee therefor have not been complied with before the first 

 day of January of said year, the said manufacturer, importer or other person may 

 offer or expose for sale and sell the said brand in this commonwealth upon filing 

 a certified copy as aforesaid of the label thereof and paying the full analysis fee 

 therefor. No agent or other person shall be oblised to file a copy of the label 

 of, or pay an analysis fee for, any brand of fertilizer for which a certified copy 

 of the label has been filed and the analysis fee has been paid by the manufac- 

 turer or importer of such brand. 



Any manufacturer, importer, or other person filing with the director of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station a false copy of the printed label 

 of any fertilizer or brand of fertilizer shall be deemed to have committed a viola- 

 tion of this act. 



Section 6. When both the certified copy of the label of 



Director to issue any brand of fertilizer has been filed and the analysis fee 



certificate of com- therefor has been paid as provided in section five of this 



pliance when condi- act, the director of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experi- 



tions are fulfilled, ment Station shall issue or cause to be issued a certificate 



to that effect ; and the certificate shall be deemed to au- 



