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went to press (April 2, 1907) : licenses will doubtless be taken 

 out for additional brands during the remaining months of the 

 year. Inquiries in regard to licensed brands of feeding stuffs 

 or commercial fertilizers, and other phases of the subject of 

 feed or fertilizer inspection will receive prompt attention. 



THE WISCONSIN FERTILIZER LAW. 



(Sections 1494c, 1494d and 1494e, Wisconsin Statutes of 1898.) 



Section 1494c. Every person who shall, in this state, sell 

 or expose for sale any commercial fertilizer or any material 

 used for fertilizing purposes, the price of which exceeds ten 

 dollars per ton, shall affix to every package of such fertilizer 

 or material in a conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a 

 plainly printed statement clearly and truly certifying the num- 

 ber of net pounds therein, name or trade-mark under which 

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

 of manufacture, place of business of the manufacturer and 

 of the following fertilizing constituents, namely : The per- 

 centage of nitrogen in an available form, of potash, soluble in 

 water and of available phosphoric acid, soluble and reverted, 

 as well as total phosphoric acid. Every such person shall also 

 file with the director of the agricultural experiment station of 

 the University of Wisconsin, in the month of December in each 

 year, a certified copy of such statement for every such fer- 

 tilizer or material bearing a distinguishing brand or trade- 

 mark and which he sells or exposes for sale, which copy shall, 

 when required by such director, be accompanied by a sealed 

 glass jar or bottle, containing at least one pound of such fer- 

 tilizer or material, and an affidavit that such sample corres- 

 ponds, within reasonable limits, to the fertilizer or material 

 which it represents in the percentage of the aforesaid con- 

 stituents, which affidavit shall apply to the remaining portion 

 of the then calendar year. Additional brands of such fer- 



