annually, to the commissioner of agriculture an analysis 

 fee, as follows, namely : ten dollars for the phosphoric acid, 

 five dollars for the nitrogen, and fivQ dollars for the potash, 

 contained or claimed to be in the said brand of fertilizer, 

 but the fee for any brand shall not exceed fifteen dollars; 

 provided, that whenever the manufacturer or importer shall 

 have paid the fee herein required, any person acting as 

 agent or seller for such manufacturer or importer shall not 

 be required to pay the fee named in this section. 



Sect. 4. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, 

 in this state, in any form as a fertilizer, any pulverized 

 leather, hair or wool waste, raw, steamed or roasted, or 

 peat, garbage tankage, or any inert material whatsoever, 

 without an explicit printed certificate of the fact conspicu- 

 ously fixed to every package of such fertilizer. 



[Approved March 8, 1917.] 



Sect. 5. Any person selling or offering or exposing for 

 sale any commercial fertilizer without the statement re- 

 quired by the first section of this act, or with a label stating 

 that said fertilizer contains a larger percentage of any one 

 or more of the constituents mentioned in said section than 

 is contained therein, or respecting the sale of which all the 

 provisions of the foregoing sections have not been fully 

 complied with, shall forfeit fifty dollars for the first offense 

 and one hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. 



Sect. 6. This act shall not affect parties manufacturing 

 or importing fertilizer for their own use and not to sell in 

 this state. 



Sect. 7. The commissioner of agriculture shall an- 

 nually cause to be analyzed at the New Hampshire College 

 Agricultural Experiment Station one or more samples of 

 every commercial fertilizer or fertilizer material sold or 

 offered for sale under the provisions of this act. Said 

 commissioner shall cause a sample to be taken, not exceed- 

 ing two pounds in weight, for said analysis, from any lot 

 or package of such fertilizer or fertilizer material which 

 may be in the possession of any manufacturer, importer, 

 agent, or dealer in this state; but said sample shall be 

 drawn in the presence of the parties in interest or their 

 representatives and taken from a parcel or a number of 

 packages, which shall not be less than ten per cent, of the 

 whole lot sampled and shall be thoroughly mixed and then 

 divided into equal, samples and placed in glass vessels and 

 carefully sealed and a label placed on each, stating the 

 name or brand of the fertilizer or material sampled, the 



