OFFICIAL INSPECTIONS 53. TO9 



12. Penalty. Violations of the law are punishable by a fine 

 not exceeding one hundred dollars for the first offense and not 

 exceeding two hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. 



13. Executive. The Director of the Station is directed to 

 collect and analyze samples of fertilizers on sale in the State; 

 to publish the results of the analyses together with additional 

 information of public benefit; and to diligently enforce the pro- 

 visions of the law. 



After January i, 19 14 it will be the duty of the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture to collect samples of fertilizers on sale in the 

 Staite, to attend to the registration, and see that the provisions 

 of the law are complied with. The analyses will be made by 

 the Station and it will still be the duty of the Director to pub- 

 lish the results of the analyses together with additional infor- 

 mation of public benefit. 



Valuation of Fertilizers. 



The agricultural value of any fertilizing constituent is meas- 

 ured by the value of the increase of the crop produced by its 

 use, and is, of course, a variable factor, depending upon the 

 availability of the constituent, and the value of the crop pro- 

 duced. The form of the materials used must be carefully con- 

 sidered in the use of manures. Slow-acting materials cannot be 

 expected to give profitable returns upon quick-growing crops, 

 nor expensive materials profitable returns when used for crops 

 of relatively low value. 



The agricultural value is distinct from what is termed "com- 

 mercial value,' or cost in market. This last is determined by 

 market and trade conditions, as cost of production of the crude 

 material, methods of manipulation required, etc. Since there 

 is no strict relation between agricultural and commercial or 

 market value, it may happen that an element in its most avail- 

 able form, and under ordinary conditions of high agricultural 

 value, costs less in market than the same element in less avail- 

 able forms and of a lower agricultural value. The commercial 

 value has reference to the material as an article of commerce, 

 hence commercial ratings of various fertiHzers have reference 

 to their relative cost and are used largely as a means by which 

 the different materials may be compared. 



