

New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. oT 
Cash value of 



commercial 
_. fertilizers. 
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_ In connection with this matter the following statement is of 
' interest: 
Professor George H. Cook, director of the New Jersey Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station, says recently: ‘The weakness of 
human nature is such that nothing but the chemist’s tests and 
publication are sufficient to hold the dealers to the furnishing of 
goods of standard purity. More than 40,000 tons of commercial 
_ fertilizers were used in our State last year, which were sold for 
considerably more than a million dollars, and the amount used in 
the whole United States is more than a million tons annually. Of 
the quality of these the farmer can form no judgment from their 
color, smell or taste, or their general appearance. The analysis 
and publication of the composition of these fertilizers has a most 
salutary effect. Honest manufacturers are protected and careless 
ones are held to their guarantees. Occasionally a brand of fertil- 
izer of worthless character is put upon the market. We lately 
had one which was sold for forty-five dollars a ton. This was an 
extreme and unusual case, but it suffices to show the importance of a 
_ eareful control of the trade in such articles by an experiment station.” 
Testimony similar to the above may be furnished without limit. 
Indeed it is practically the unanimous opinions of all those who 
have given any consideration to this important subject. 
The following bill was introduced into the Assembly at the last 
session of the Legislature by the Hon. Mr. Maynard on the 15th 
_ of March, 1888, read twice and by unanimous consent ordered to a 
third reading and printed: 



















aS ‘An Act to prevent fraud in the manufacture and sale of commer- 
_ cial 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 : 
_ Sxcrion 1. Before any commercial fertilizer or manure, the retail 
price of which is ten dollars or more per ton, is sold, offered or 
