214 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



LAV^S. 



Chapter 177, Public Laws of Maine, 1887. 



AN ACT to regulate the sale and analysis of Commercial Fertilizers. 



Section 1. The manufacturer, corapan}^, or person selling or 

 offering for sale in this State, anj^ commercial fertilizers exceeding 

 ten dollars per ton in price shall, on or before the first day of March 

 annually, or before offering the same for sale, register in the office 

 of the department of the Maine State College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts, known as the Agricultural Experiment Station, the " 

 name or trade mark under which the fertilizer is sold, the name of 

 the manufacturer and the place of manufacture. 



Sec. 2. Any manufacturer, company or person who shall offer, 

 sell, or expose for sale in this State, any commercial fertilizer, the 

 price of which exceeds ten dollars per ton, shall affix to every 

 package, in a conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a plainly 

 printed certificate, stating the number of net pounds in the package 

 sold or offered for sale, the name or trade- mark under which the 

 article is sold, the name of the manufacturer, and the place of manu- 

 facture, and a chemical analysis stating the percentage of nitrogen, 

 or its equivalent in ammonia in available form, of potash soluble in 

 water, and of phosphoric acid in available form, soluble or reverted, 

 as well as the total phosphoric acid. 



Sec. 3. Any representative or agent of said station is hereby 

 empowered to select from three different parcels or packages of 

 commercial fertilizers, taken from three different sections of the 

 State, held or offered for sale in this State, quantities not exceed- 

 ing two pounds from each package, which quantities shall be for 

 analysis, and the average of the several analyses shall be taken to 

 compare with the certificate found on the given packages, held or 

 offered for sale ; and said station may cause to be selected each 

 year, at least three samples, as aforesaid, from each brand held for 

 sale. The agent shall select these samples, in the presence of some 

 representative of the company', from which the quantities are so 

 selected, and shall deliver one-half of said samples, properly sealed 

 by him, to said representative. 



Sec. 4. Any person or party, who shall offer or expose for sale 

 any commercial fertilizer, without complying with the requirements 



