September, 1913. 



MAINE 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



ORONO, MAINE. 



CHAS. D. WOODS, Director 



ANALYSTS 



James M. Bartlett Herman H. Hanson 



Royden L. Hammond Edward E. Sawyer 



Helen W. Averill Elmer R. Tobey 



Official insfpectionsi 



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FERTILIZER IXSPECTION. 



The reports of the analyses of the samples collected by the 

 inspectors of the fertilizers found on sale in Maine in 1912 are 

 here published together with such other information as seems 

 pertinent. 



Chief Requirements of the Law. 



The following are the chief points of the law and the regu- 

 lations. The full text of the law will be sent on application 

 made to the Director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Orono, ]\Iaine. 



I. Kind of materials coining under the law. The law ap- 

 plies to the sale, distribution, transportation, or the offering or 

 exposing for sale, distribution or transportation, any materials 

 used for fertilizing purposes the price of which exceeds $10 

 per ton. 



