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The provisions of the Act are as follows : 

 [Chap. 296.] 

 An Act to kegulate the sale of commekcial fertilizers. 

 Be it Enacted, etc., as follows: 



Sect. 1. Every lot or parcel of commeicial fertilizer or material 

 used for maiiurial purposes, sold, offered or exposed for sale within 

 this Commonwealth, the retail price of which is ten dollars or more 

 per ton, shall be accompanied by a plainly printed statement 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 manufacturer or importer, the place 

 of manufacture, and a chemical anal3'sis stating the percentage of 

 nitrogen or its equivalent in ammonia, of potash soluble in distilled 

 watxir, and of phosphoric acid in available form soluble in distilled 

 water and 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, the retail price of which 

 is ten dollars or more per ton, is sold, offered or exposed for sale, the 

 importer, manufacturer or party who causes it to be sold or offered 

 for sale within the state of Massachusetts, shall file with the director 

 of the Massachusetts agricultural experiment station, 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 atlidavit that it is a fair average sample thereof. 



Sect. 3. The manufacturei', importer, agent or seller of any brand 

 of commercial fertilizer or material used for manurial purposes, the 

 retail price of which is ten dollars or more per ton, shall pay for each 

 brand, on or before the first day of May annually, to the director of 

 the Massachusetts agricultural 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 : x)rovided, that whenever the manu- 

 facturer or importer shall have paid the fee herein required lor any 

 person acting as agent or seller for such manufacturer or importer, 

 such agent or seller shall not be required to pay the fee named in this 

 section ; and on receipt of said analysis fees and statement specified 



