412 REPORT OF THE INSPECTION WORK OF THE 
NEW FERTILIZER LAW. 
The State legislature amended the fertilizer law in 1899 and 
attention is called to the principal changes that affect manu- 
facturers and dealers. 
(1) All fertilizers selling for five dollars or more per ton come 
under the law. 
(2) Every manufacturer, importer, dealer or agent must pay 
a license fee amounting to twenty dollars a year for each separate 
brand or kind of fertilizer or fertilizing material. 
(3) Statements of guarantee analysis, etc., are to be filed and 
license fees paid during December each year covering the goods 
to be sold during the year following. 
LIST OF MANUFACTURERS WHO HAVE PAID LICENSE 
FEES AND FILED STATEMENTS AS REQUIRED BY 
LAW FOR 1902. 
Manufacturers, to the number of 71, have, since the first of 
December, 1901, paid license fees and filed statements in com- 
pliance with the provisions of the law. Of these there are 29 
firms whose places of business are located outside of New York 
State. These 71 manufacturers put on the market 548 different 
brands of fertilizers, including mixed and unmixed goods. The 
new fertilizer law has proved very efficient in diminishing the 
number of brands of fertilizers offered for sale. In 1899 there 
were offered for sale 2,268 brands as against 548 in 1902. More- 
over, the results of analysis show higher average composition in 
1902 than in 1899. In some cases manufacturers who offered 
twenty brands for sale in 1899 now offer only one. 
