ANN REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE 
form as a fertilizer or ingredient of any fertilizer or manure 
- . without affixing a printed certificate of the fact to every package. 
The director shall cause one analysis or more annually to be 
made of each brand of fertilizer and the results are to be 
published monthly. 
New Jersey. 
Kvery commercial fertilizer offered for sale must be accompanied 
by an analysis and the method of stating the analysis is defined. 
The chemist of the State Board of Agriculture is the inspector of 
fertilizers and he must analyze annually one or more samples of 
every kind of fertilizer offered for sale. Any person interested 
may obtain an analysis, from the inspector, of any fertilizer, and 
for the certificate of analysis the parties must pay to the chemist 
a sum not exceeding fifteen dollars. 
Pennsylvania. 
The law specifies that every package of commercial fertilizer 
offered or exposed for sale in the State shall have plainly stamped 
thereon the name of the manufacturer, place of manufacture, net 
weight of contents, and an analysis stating the per cent. Every 
manufacturer or importer must annually file with the Secretary of 
the Commonwealth an affidavit stating the amount of said fertil- 
izer sold within the State during the preceding year. It is the 
duty of the Board of Agriculture to analyze such specimens of 
commercial fertilizers as may be furnished by its agents. 
The license fee required is $10 for every hundred tons sold, $20 
for 100 to 500 tons, and $30 for above 500 tons. 
North Carolina. 
The law in this State requires that the manufacturer or seller 
procure a license from the State Treasurer for which he shall pay 
a privilege tax of $500 for each separate brand or quality offered 
for sale. There must be also affixed to every package of fertilizer 
a printed label setting forth the name, location and trade-mark of 
the manufacturer, also the chemical composition of the contents 
of each package. The Department of Agriculture may require the 
officers, agents or managers of any railroad or steamboat company 
to furnish monthly statements of the quantity of fertilizer, with 
the name of the consignor or consignee, delivered to any point in 
the State. They may even compel the company to submit their _ 
books for examination. | ; 

