FERTILIZER LAW IN FORCE IN MAINE. 



PUBLIC LAWS OF MAINE, 1893. 



Chapter 256. 



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



Section 1. Every manufacturer, company or person who shall 

 sell, offer or expose for sale in this state any commercial fertilizer 

 or any material used for fertilizing purposes, the price of which ex- 

 ceeds ten dollars per ton, shall affix to every package of such fertil- 

 izer in a conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a plainly printed 

 statement clearly and truly certifying' the number of net poiinds 

 in the package sold or offered for sale, the name or trade mark under 

 which the article is sold, the name of the manufacturer or shipper, 

 the place of manufacture, the place of business and a chemical analy- 

 sis 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 and reverted as well as the total phosphoric 

 acid. 



Sect. 2. Every manufacturer, company or person who shall sell, 

 offer or expose for sale in this state any commercial fertilizer or 

 material used for fertilizing purposes, the price of which exceeds 

 ten dollars per ton, shall for each and every fertilizer bearing a dis- 

 tinguishing name or trade mark, file annually with the director of 

 the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, between the fifteenth 

 day of November and the fifteenth day of December, a certified copy 

 of the statement, named in section one of this act, said certified copy 

 to be accompanied, when required, by a sealed glass jar or bottle 

 containing at least one pound of the fertilizer to be sold or offered for 

 sale, and the company or person filing said certified copy with its 

 accompanying sample of fertilizer shall thereupon make affidavit 

 that said sample corresponds within reasonable limits to the fertil- 

 izer which it represents in the percentage of nitrogen, total and 

 available phosphoric acid, and potash soluble in water which it 

 contains. Such affidavit shall apply to the entire calendar year next 

 succeeding the date upon which said affidavit is made, unless the 

 person or persons making such affidavit shall give notice to the 



