in section two, tlie director of said station shall issue certificates of 

 compliance with this act. 



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

 of Massachusetts, an}' pulverized leather, raw, steamed, roasted, or 

 in an}- form as a fertilizer, or as. an ingredient of any fertilizer or 

 manure, without an explicit printed certificate of the fact, said certi- 

 ficate to be conspicuously affixed to every package of such fertilizer 

 or manure and to accompany or go with every parcel or lot of the 

 same. 



Sect. 5. Any person selling, offering or exposing for sale, any 

 commercial fertilizer without the statement required by the first sec- 

 tion 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 offence, and one 

 hundred dollars for each subsequent offence. 



Sect. 6. This act shall not affect parties manufacturing, import- 

 ing or purchasing fertilizers for their own use, and not to sell ii. this 

 state. 



Sect. 7. The director of the Massachusetts agricultural experi- 

 ment station shall pay the analysis fees, as soon as received by hinj, 

 into the treasury of the station, and shall cause one analysis or more 

 of each fertilizer or material used for manurial purposes to' be made 

 annually, and publish the results monthly, with such additional infor- 

 mation as circumstances advise : provided, such information relates 

 only to the composition of the fertilizer or fertilizing material 

 inspected. Said director is hereby authorized in person or by deputy 

 to take a sample, not exceeding two pounds in weight, for analysis, 

 from any lot or package of fertilizer or any material used for manurial 

 purposes which may be in the possession of any manufacturer, 

 importer, agent or dealer; but said sample shall be drawn in the 

 presence of said party or parties in interest or their representative, 

 and taken from a parcel or a number of packages which shall not be 

 less than ten per cent, of the whole lot inspected, and shall be 

 thoroughly mixed and then divided into two 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 name of 

 the party from whose stock the sample was drawn and the time and 

 place of drawing, and said label shall also be signed by the director 



