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(1) All fertilizers selling for five dollars or more per ton will 
come under the law, the limit previously having been confined to 
fertilizers selling for ten dollars or more per ton. 
(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. . 
LAWS OF NEW YORK. 
Cuaprrer 955, Laws or 1896, as AMENDED By CHAPTER 687, 
Laws or 1899. 
[Law is given as amended — changes in italics.] 
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate 
and Assembly, do enact as follows: 
Statement of amount, brand name, manufacturer’s name and address, 
and chemical composition required on each package, 
Section 1. Every person who shall sell, offer or expose for sale 
in this State any commercial fertilizer or any material to be used 
as a fertilizer, the selling price of which exceeds five dollars per 
ton, shall stamp on or affix to each package of such fertilizer, in a 
conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a plainly printed state- 
ment which shall certify as follows: 
1. The number of net pounds of fertilizer in the package sold 
or offered for sale; 
2. The name, brand or trade-mark under which the fertilizer 
is sold; 
3. The name and address of the manufacturer of the fertilizer; 
4. The chemical composition of the fertilizer expressed in the 
following terms: 
