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carefully collected specimens of every brand of fertilizer offered 
for sale in any -portion of the State. 
Thus far the analyses made continue to show not infrequent 
failures upon the part of manufacturers and dealers to comply 
strictly with the requirements of the law, occasionally fertilizers 
being found for sale containing no guaranteed composition upon 
the packages as the law directs; many. samples also are found 
where a deficiency in one constituent appears to have been made 
good in an increase of another beyond the amount guaranteed. 
It is hoped that all those knowing of the neglect of manufac- 
turers or dealers to comply with any of the requirements of our 
fertilizer law will at once give full information of such fact to 
the Director of this Station, who is charged with the enforcement 
_ of the provisions of this excellent law. 
The following is a correct copy of the law: 
New York State Frrtipizer Law. 
Cuap. 437, 
Aw Acr for the protection and education of farmers and manu- 
facturers in the purchase and sale of fertilizers. 
Approved by the Governor May 24, 1890. Passed, three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 
Assembly, do enact as follows : 
Szotion 1. All commercial fertilizers which shall be offered for 
sale, to be used in this State, shall be accompanied by an analysis 
stating the percentages contained therein of nitrogen or its 
equivalent ammonia, of soluble and available phosphoric acid, the 
available phosphoric acid either to be soluble in water or in a neu- 
tral solution of citrate of ammonia‘as determined by the methods 
agreed upon by the American Society of Agricultural Chemists, 
and of potash soluble in distilled water. <A legible statement of 
the analysis of the goods shall be printed on, or attached to each 
package of fertilizer offered for sale for use in the state; and 
where fertilizers are sold in balk, to be used in this state, an 
analysis shall accompany the same, with an affidavit that it is a 
true representation of the contents of the article or articles. 
§ 2. Manufacturers residing in this state, and agents or sellers 
of fertilizers made by persons residing outside the limits of this 
state, shall between the jirst and twentieth day of July, in each 
