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New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 913 
this state, and offered for sale for use in this state, shall conform 
to the provisions of this act, and shall be subject to its penalties, 
and in all particulars shall take the place of their non-resident 
principals. 
§ 10. Chapter two hundred and twenty-two of the laws of 
eighteen hundred and seventy-eight is hereby repealed. 
§ 11. This act shall take effect immediately. 
STATE OF NEW YORK, 
Orrick oF SECRETARY OF STATE. 
I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in 
this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct tran- 
script therefrom and of the whgle of said original law. 
FRANK RICE, 
Secretary of State. 
Of the 247 samples analyzed, thirty-two give only a certain, and 
definite percentage of each constituent guaranteed to be present, 
and 215 give a minimum and maximum amount, though it must 
not be forgotten that such guarantee is misleading generally to the 
buyer, since obviously the guarantee in fact extends only to the 
minimum amount guaranteed, and when, therefore, a manufacturer 
guarantees, for example, two or three per cent. of nitrogen, four to 
five per cent. of potash, or ten to twelve per cent. of available phos- 
phoric acid, such guarantee legally would be only for two per cent 
_ of nitrogen, four per cent. of potash and ten per cent. of available 
phosphoric acid, instead of the mean amounts in each case. 
It is interesting to observe that in the thirty-two samples in 
which a definite amount of each constituent was guaranteed the 
average quantity guaranteed and found was as follows: 
Available 
Nitrogen, phosphoric acid, Potash, 
per cent. per cent. per cent 
MATE CCC U cass) soba ices sole acs 2.785 8.638 5.040 
PGS A ES ee i 3.171 9.450 tor 



or an excess of 13.9 per cent. of nitrogen, of 9.4 per cent. of available 
phosphoric acid, and of 6.7 per cent. of potash over the guaranteed 
amount, which is certainly a very creditable showing. 
