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New York AGRICULTORAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 183 
year, furnish to the Director of the New York State Agricultural — 
Experiment Station at Geneva a list 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 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 accompanied 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 not more 
than one-third of one per centum of nitrogen or its equivalent of 
ammonia, or one-half of one per centum of soluble or available 
phosphoric acid and one-half of one per centum of potash soluble 
in distilled water, such statements shall not be deemed false with- 
in the meaning of this act. 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 sulphuricor other acids, ashesfrom whatever source, 
obtained, potash, salts of all kinds, fish scrap, dried or undried, 
~ also all combinations of phosphoric acid, nitrogen or potash, from 
whatever source obtained, as well as all and 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, upon conviction thereof, for the first 
offense be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor 
