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PART III. — GENERAL AGRICULTURAL LEGISLATION. 

 GRADING OF MILK. 



General Acts, Chapter 170. 



An Act relative to the classification and grading of milk. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section three of chapter two hundred and fifty-six of the General Acts 

 of nineteen hundred and seventeen is hereby amended by striking out the 

 word "two", in the sixth line, and substituting the word: — one, — so as 

 to read as follows : — Section 3. The board of health of any city or town, 

 upon application of any person, firm, association or corporation, desiring 

 to sell or exchange milk therein as "Grade A, Massachusetts Milk", shall 

 cause the milk produced or to be sold or exchanged by such applicant to 

 be tested for classification as prescribed by section one of this act, and if 

 upon such examination and test the milk so produced or to be sold or 

 exchanged by the applicant is found to comply with the aforesaid re- 

 quirements of classification of "Grade A, Massachusetts Milk", the board 

 of health shall issue without charge to the applicant a written permit to 

 keep for sale, exchange or delivery, or to sell, exchange or deliver in such 

 city or town, milk graded, classified, designated and labelled, as herein- 

 before provided, as "Grade A, Massachusetts Milk". Any permit so 

 issued may, at any time, be revoked upon written notice to the holder 

 thereof, by the board of health issuing the same, if milk offered by the 

 holder for sale or exchange as so graded or classified shall not comply with 

 the aforesaid requirements. [Approved April 24, 1918. 



COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. 



General Acts, Chapter 220. 

 An Act relative to the sale of commercial fertilizers. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section L Chapter three hundred and eighty-eight of the acts of 

 nineteen hundred and eleven is hereby amended by striking out section 

 six, and substituting the following: — Section 6. When the certified copy 

 of the label of any brand of fertilizer has been filed, and the proper fees, 

 have been paid, the director of the Massachusetts agricultural experiment 

 station shall issue or cause to be issued a certificate to that effect; and the 

 certificate shall be deemed to authorize the sale in this commonwealth, 

 in compliance with this act, of the brand of fertilizer for which the cer- 

 tificate is issued up to and including the thirty-first day of December of 

 the year for which it is issued. The director of the Massachusetts agri- 

 cultural experiment station or his authorized deputy may refuse to issue 

 a certificate for any fertilizer or brand of fertilizer which does not contain 

 at least one half of one per cent of nitrogen, or one half of one per cent of 



