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to be made and published annually, and’shall mail at least one copy of 
such published analysis to each agent or seller of said fertilizer or 
manure, who shall have reported to him, as provided in section 3 of 
_ this act. Said director is hereby authorized, in person or by deputy, 
to take samples for analysis from any lot or package of fertilizer or 
manure which may be in possession of any agent or seller. 
§ 6. This act shall take effect on the first'day of August, 1888. 
The above act was amended so as to include ashes and to 
Ms provide that only the excess of fees over the expenses incurred 
_- in carrying out the provisions of the bill should be paid into the 
j State reasury. 
; A circular letter dated New York, April 5, 1888, was signed by 
nearly every leading manufacturer and dealer in fertilizers doing 
business in this State, and sent to the members of the Senate and 
Assembly, earnestly protesting against the passage of the bill, 
_._ which they characterized as “a tax which is unjust and a direct 
blow against the farming industry of this State.” The protest 
; closes by saying: ‘“ We trust the enacting clause will be stricken 
out, and the bill consigned to oblivion.” It is noticeable that this 
protest in behalf of the farmers did not receive the signature of a 
single farmer. It will be seen that this bill which received this 
earnest protest was entirely reasonable as compared with similar 
enactments which have received the sanction of neighboring States. 
The farmers and their friends throughout the State should see 
to it that the next Legislature should speedily pass a bill such as, 
or similar to, the Maynard Bill, and thus protect their interests in 
this important matter of commercial fertilizers, “so that our 
farmers may purchase these with the same confidence that they 
do sugar and nails and cloth.” 
The following modification of the ‘Maynard Bill” was agreed 
'_ upon at a conference between a number of manufacturers of fer- 
'  tilizers and the friends of the bill, but so near the close of the 
session that it failed to pass: 




Bi Aw Act to prevent fraud.in the manufacture and sale of com- 
mercial fertilizers, and to provide for a chemical analysis of 
the same. 





The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 
do enact as follows : | 
_ Section 1. Before any commercial fertilizer, ashes or manure, the 
retail price of which is ten dollars or more per ton, is sold, offered or 
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