i9o6.] Fertilisers AND Feeding Stuffs Act. 463 



sold under a name or description implying that it is prepared 

 from any particular substance or from any two or more 

 particular substances, or is the product of any particular seed 

 or of any two or more particular seeds, and without indication 

 that it is mixed or compounded with any other substance or 

 seed, there is implied a warranty by the seller that it is pure, 

 that is to say, is prepared from that substance or those sub- 

 stances only, or is a product of that seed or those seeds only. 



Warranty implied by the Sale of a Feeding Stuff. — On the sale 

 of any article for use as food for cattle or poultry, there is to be 

 implied a warranty by the seller that the article is suitable for 

 such use. 



Warranty implied by Statements made in Invoices, Circulars^ 

 or Advertisements. — Any statement by the seller of the percen- 

 tages of the chemical and other ingredients contained in any 

 article sold for use as a fertiliser of the soil, or of the nutritive 

 and other ingredients contained in any article sold for use as 

 food for cattle or poultry, made after the commencement of the 

 Act in an invoice of such article, or in any circular or advertise- 

 ment descriptive of such article, is to have effect as a warranty 

 by the seller. 



Mixtures prepared at the Request of tJie Purchaser. — Where an 

 article sold for use as a fertiliser of the soil or as food for cattle 

 or poultry consists of two or more ingredients which have been 

 mixed at the request of the purchaser, it is to be a sufficient 

 compliance with the above provisions with respect to percentages 

 if the invoice contains a statement of percentages with respect 

 to the several ingredients before mixture, and a statement that 

 they have been mixed at the request of the purchaser. 



Meaning of Certain Expressions in the Act. — For the purposes 

 of this Act the expression " cattle " means bulls, cows, oxen, 

 heifers, calves, sheep, goats, swine, and horses ; and the expres- 

 sions " soluble" and " insoluble " are defined as meaning soluble 

 and insoluble in water, or, if so specified in the invoice, in a 

 solution of citric acid or other solvent of the prescribed strength ; 

 the percentage of soluble phosphates and percentage of in- 

 soluble phosphates mean respectively the percentage of tribasic 

 phosphate of lime which has been, and that which has not been, 

 rendered soluble. 



