
28 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE 
exposed for sale, the manufacturer, importer, or party who causes it to 
be sold or offered for sale within this State shall file with the director of 
the New York Agricultural Experiment Station one certified copy of 
the certificate now required by section one of chapter two hundred 
and twenty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, 
to be affixed to each package of fertilizer or manure so offered for 
sale in this State, and shall deposit with said director a sealed glass 
jar or bottle containing not less than one pound of the fertilizer or 
manure, accompanied by an affidavit that it is a fair average sample 
thereof; but only one certificate and affidavit need be filed, and but one 
sample deposited. 
§ 2. The manufacturer, importer, agent or seller of any commercial 
fertilizer or manure, the retail price of which is ten dollars or more 
per ton, shall pay, on or before the first day of May annually, to the 
director of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, an analysis 
fee of ten dollars for each of the fertilizing ingredients contained or 
claimed to be contained in said fertilizer or manure; provided, that 
when the manufacturer, importer or other person shall have paid the 
fee herein required, no agent or seller be required to pay the fee 
named in this section. For any violation of this section the offender 
shall be liable to a penalty of $200, to be sued for by the director of 
the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, the recovery to go to 
the State. 
§ 3. Every person in this State who sells or acts as local agent for 
the sale of any commercial fertilizer or manure, of whatever kind or 
price, shall, at the time of becoming such seller or agent, and annually 
thereafter, so long as he shall so act, report to the director of the 
New York Agricultural Experiment Station his name, residence, post- 
office address and the name and brand of said fertilizer or manure, 
with the name and address of the manufacturer, importer, or party 
from which such fertilizer or manure was obtained; and shall, on ~ 
demand of the director of the New York Agricultural Experiment 
Station, deliver to said director a sample suitable for analysis, of any 
such fertilizer or manure then and there sold or offered for sale by 
such seller or agent. Any persons violating the provisions of this sec- 
Res 
tion shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars, to be recovered by action 
by any person to whom said fertilizer or manure shall be sold. 
§ 4. Violations of section one of this act are misdemeanoys, and on 
conviction the punishment shall be, for the first offense, a fine of not 
less than $100; and for the second offense, a fine not less than $200. 
§ 5. The director of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station 
shall pay the analysis fees received by him into the treasury of the 
State, and shall cause one or more analyses of each fertilizer or manure ~ 

