OFFICIAL INSPECTIONS 74. 22^ 



3. Manufacturers' certificate. Before manufacturing, sell- 

 ing or distributing a commercial fertilizer a ceritfied copy of 

 the statements named in 2 shall be filed with the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture. 



4. Manufacturers' samples. When the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture shall so request, the manufacturer shall furnish a 

 sealed package containing not less than two pounds of the com- 

 mercial fertilizer. 



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

 brand offered for sale, distribution or transportation in the 

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

 acid, $5 for the potash and $io for the lime 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 Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture 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 Commissioner of Agriculture also 

 has power to cancel the registration of a fertilizer manufac- 

 tured, sold, distributed or transported in violation of any of 

 th 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 package 

 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 differ from the statements in the certificate; and if 

 the registration fee has not been paid. 



9. Analysis for correspondents. A special law provides for 

 the analysis of samples of fertilizers on sale in Maine taken in 

 accordance with the law and the payment of an analysis fee of 

 $10. If the analysis proves to be of public importance the an- 

 alysis fee will be returned. Otherwise the money will be used 

 in the enforcement of the law. Blanks with full directions will 

 be furnished by the Commissioner of Agriculture on request. 



