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(a) Per centum of nitrogen; 
(b) Per centum of available phosphoric acid, or in case of un- 
dissolved bone, the per centum of total phosphoric acid; 
(c) Per centum of potash soluble in distilled water. 
If any such fertilizer be sold, offered or exposed for sale in bulk, 
such printed statement shall accompany every part and parcel so 
sold, offered or exposed for sale. 
Falsity in statement and deficiency in percentage composition violate 
provisions of act. 
§ 2. It shall be a violation of the provision of this act if the 
statement required by section one of this act shall be false in re- 
gard to the number of net pounds of fertilizer in the package sold, 
offered or exposed for sale, or in the name, brand or trade-mark 
under which the fertilizer is sold, or in the name and address of 
the manufacturer of the fertilizer. It shall also be a violation 
of the provisions of this act if any commercial fertilizer or material 
to be used as a fertilizer shall contain a smaller percentage of 
nitrogen, phosphoric acid or potash than is certified in said state- 
ment to be contained therein, when-such deficiency shall be greater 
than one-third of one per centum of nitrogen, or one-half of one 
per centum of available phosphoric acid (or one per centum of 
total phosphoric acid in the case of undissolved bone), or one-half 
of one per centum of potash soluble in distilled water. 
Filing of statement required; license fee of twenty dollars per brand 
required; certificate given; fees go to treasurer of State; report of 
expenditures for analytical work required. 
§ 3. Before any commercial fertilizer or any material to be used 
as a fertilizer is sold, offered or exposed for sale in this state, the 
manufacturer, importer or person who causes the same to be sold, 
offered or exposed for sale shall file with the New York Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station at Geneva, a certified copy of the state 
ment prescribed in section one of this act, and, in addition, such 
