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FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS 

 REGULATIONS, 1897. 



The Board of Agriculture, in pursuance of the provisions 

 of the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1893, have made 

 and issued the following revised Regulations as to sampling, 

 which are to take effect from the 1st July, 1897, from which 

 date the regulations previously in force are revoked. The 

 revised regulations provide a form for the use of a buyer of a 

 fertiliser or feeding stuff, who may desire to appoint the 

 secretary oi an analytical or other association, or some other 

 person, to act as his agent for the purpose of obtaining an 

 analysis under the Act. A form is also provided for the use 

 of a buyer or seller who may desire that the sample should 

 be taken by the District Agricultural Analyst or his 

 authorised representative. The number of bags or packages 

 from which the samples of a fertiliser are to be taken, has 

 been in some cases reduced, and the provisions as to taking 

 samples of feeding cakes have been simplified. 



Commencement. 



1. These Regulations are to take effect on the First day of July, one thousand 

 eight hundred and ninety-seven, and to remain in force until altered or revoked by 

 the Board of Agriculture. 



Definitions. 



2. In these Regulations 



"Authorised representative" means any person authorised by the District 

 Analyst to take sample?, with the approval of the body who appointed the 

 District Anal)s\ 



" Buyer " and " seller " include their respective agents. 



" Fertiliser " means any article sold for use as a fertiliser of the soil, which 

 has been subjected to any artificial process in the United Kingdom, or 

 imported from abroad. 



"Feeding s'uff " means any article soli for u-e as food for cattlf, which has 

 been artificially prepared. 



O. her terms have the same meaning and scope as in the above-mentioned Act. 



Appointment of Agent. 



3. An appointment of an agent by the buyer may be in the Form A. set forth in 

 the Schedule hereto or in a form to the like effect ; and the provisions of these 

 Regulations relating to a buyer shall apply to an agent appointed by the buyer for 

 the purposes of the above-ment'oned Act. 



Proceedings by Buyer to procure Samples. 



4. When the buyer of not les; thin half a huidre Iw^ight of a fertiliser, or of any 

 quan'ity of a feeding stuff, des'res to have the same analyse! in pursuance of the 

 fifth section uf the above Act, he is, within ten d lys after ih* delivery of the artiz'e 



