150 Report oF THE DiRECTOR OF THE 
commercial fertilizers they manufacture or offer for sale for use 
in this State, with the names or brands by which they are known 
on the market, and the several percentages of nitrogen or its 
equivalent of ammonia, of phosphoric acid, both soluble and 
available, and of potash either single or combined, contained in 
said fertilizer, as called for in section one of this act. Whenever 
any fertilizer or fertilizing ingredients are shipped or sold in bulk, 
for use by farmers in this State, a statement must be sent to the 
Director of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station 
at Geneva, giving the name of the goods so shipped, and accom- 
panied with an affidavit from the seller, giving the analysis of 
such percentage guaranteed. 
§ 3. Whenever a correct chemical analysis of any fertilizer 
offered for sale in this State shall show a deficiency of more than 
one-third of one per centum of nitrogen or its equivalent of 
ammonia, or one-half of one per centum of available phosphoric 
acid, or one-half of one per centum of potash soluble in distilled 
water, such statements shall be deemed false within the meaning 
of thisact. This act shall apply to all articles of fertilizers offered 
or exposed for sale for use in the State of New York, the selling 
price of which is ten dollars per ton or higher, and of which they 
are part or parcel, and of any element into which they enter as 
fertilizing materials, among which may be enumerated nitrate of 
soda, sulphate of ammonia, dissolved bone black and bone black 
undissolved, any phosphate rock, treated or untreated with sul- 
phuric or other acids, ashes from whatever source obtained, 
potash salts of all kinds, fish scrap, dried or undried, also all — 
combinations of phosphoric acid, nitrogen or potash, from what- 
ever source obtained, as well as every article that is or may be 
combined for fertilizing purposes. . 
§ 4. All manufacturers or dealers exposing or offering for sale _ 
in this State fertilizers containing roasted leather or any other ’ 
form of inert nitrogenous matter shall, in legible print, state the — 
fact on the package in which the fertilizers are exposed or offered — 
for sale. | 
§ 5. Every person, firm or corporation violating any of the 
provisions of this act shall be gwilty of a misdemeanor, and shall 4 
upon conviction thereof, for the first offense, be punished bya ~ 
fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred — 
dollars, and for the second offense by double the amount in the © 






