or his deputy and by the party or parties in interest or their represen- 

 tatives present at the drawing and sealing of said sample ; one of said 

 duplicate samples shall be retained by the director and the other by 

 the party whose stock was sampled. All parties violating this act 

 shall be prosecuted by the director of said station ; but it shall be the 

 duty of said director, upon ascertaining any violation of this act, to 

 forthwith notify the manufacturer or importer in writing, and give 

 him not less than thirty days thereafter in which to comply with the 

 requirements of this act, l)ut there shall be no prosecution in relation 

 to the quality of the fertilizer or fertilizing material if the same shall 

 be found substantially equivalent to the statement of analysis made 

 by the manufacturer or importer. 



Sect. 8. Sections eleven to sixteen inclusive of chapter sixty of 

 the Public Statutes are hereby repealed. 



Sect. 9. This act shall take effect on the first day of September 

 in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. \^Approvecl May 3, 

 1888. ' 



The above stated regulations are now in force, and a compliance tvith 

 them is imperative on all manufacturers, importers, agents or sellers of 

 any brand of commercial fertilizer or of any material used for manurial 

 purposes, the retail selling price of which is ten dollars or more per ton. 



It will be noticed, that the new provisions for the control of the 

 trade in fertilizers in Massachusetts apply not only, as heretofore, to 

 a certain class of more or less compound, distinct brands of commer- 

 cial fertilizers, but to all materials, single or comptound, used for 

 manurial purposes, ivithout regard to source, when offered for sale at 

 ten dollars or more per ton. 



More detailed information in this connection, regarding the duties 

 of the director of the Massachusetts state agricultural experiment 

 station, and the obligation of manufacturers, dealers and agents 

 engaged in the sale of Commercial Fertilizers, or Materials used for 

 manurial purposes, may be obtained by addressing the director at 

 Amherst, Mass. Copies of the above printed " Act," may be had on 

 application. 



The new duties assigned to the director of the station render it 

 necessary, to discriminate in the future, in official publications of the 

 results of analyses of commercial fertilizers and of manurial sub- 

 stance in general, between analyses of samples collected by a duly 

 qualified delegate of the experiment station, in conformity toith the 

 rides prescribed by the new laivs, and those analyses ivhich are made 



