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M. E. Wheeler & Co., Rutland, Vt. : — 

 High-grade Fruit Fertilizer. 

 Grass aud Oats Fertilizer. 

 Electrical Dissolved Rone. 

 Potato Manure. 

 High-grade Corn Fertilizer. 

 Superior Truck Fertilizer. 



2. New Laws for the Regulation of the Trade in 

 Commercial Fertilizers in Massachusetts. 



[Acts of 189G, Chapter 297.] 

 An Act to regulate the Sale of Commercial Fertilizers. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Every lot or parcel of commercial fertilizer or fer- 

 tilizer material sold or offered or exposed for sale wilhin this 

 Commonwealth shall be accompanied by a plainly printed state- 

 ment, 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 manu- 

 facturer or importer, the location of the factory, and a chemical 

 analysis stating the percentage of nitrogen, of potash soluble in 

 distilled water, aud of phosphoric acid in available form soluble 

 in distilled water aud 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. 



Sect. 2. Before any commercial fertilizer is sold or offered or 

 exposed for sale the importer, manufacturer or party who causes 

 it to be sold or offered for sale within this Commonwealth shall 

 file with the director of the Hatch experiment station of the Mas- 

 sachusetts 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. 



Sect. 3. The manufacturer, importer, agent or seller of any 

 brand of commercial fertilizer or fertilizer material shall pay for 

 each brand, on or before the first day of Ma}' annually, to the 

 director of the experiment station, an analysis fee of five dollars 

 for each of the three following fertilizing ingredients : namely, 

 nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, contained or claimed to exist 

 in said brand of fertilizer : provided, that whenever the manufact- 



