OFFICIAL INSPECTIONS 42. IIQ 



The minimum percentage of total phosplioric acid. 



If a fertilizer is sold in bulk or put up in packages belonging 

 to the purchaser, upon the request of the purchaser he shall be 

 furnished with a copy of the statements named above. 



3. Manufacturers' certificate. Before manufacturing, sell- 

 ing or distributing a commercial fertilizer a certified copy of 

 the statements named in 2 shall be filed with the Director of the 

 Maine Experiment Station. 



4. Manufacturers', sample. When the Director shall so re- 

 quest, the manufacturer shall furnish a sealed package contain- 

 ing not less than two pounds of the commercial .fertilizer. 



5. Registration fee. A registration fee is assessed on any 

 brand offered for sale, distribution or transportaiion in the 

 State as follows : $10 for the nitrogen, $10 for the phosphoric 

 acid and $5 for the potash contained or said to be contained in 

 the fertilizer. The filing of the certificate and the payment of 

 the fee is required from only one person for a given brand. 



6. Registration may be refused or canceled. The Director 

 of the Station may refuse to register any commercial fertilizer 

 which bears a name that is misleading or deceptive or which 

 would tend to mislead or deceive as to the materials of which it 

 is composed. The Director also has power to cancel the regis- 

 tration of a fertilizer manufactured, sold, distributed or trans- 

 ported in violation of any of the provisions of the law. ■ 



7. Adulteration. A fertilizer is adulterated if its weight, 

 composition, quality, strength or purity varies from its fixed 

 guaranty or if it contains any materials deleterious to growing 

 plants. 



8. Misbranding. A fertilizer is misbranded if: the pack- 

 age or label carries any statement, design or device that' is false 

 or misleading in any particular ; the container does not carry 

 the statements named in 2 ; the printed statements attached to 

 the container difl^er from the statements in the certificate ; and 

 if the registration fee has not been paid. 



9. Analysis for correspondents. A special law provides that 

 the station shall analyze samples of fertilizers on sale in Maine 

 taken in accordance with the law and the directions of the 

 director and the payment of an analysis fee of $10. If the 

 analysis proves to be of public importance the analysis fee will 

 be returned. Otherwise the money will be used in the enforce- 



