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New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. ue 
mercial fertilizer shall annually, or at the time of becoming such 
seller, report to the director of the experiment station his name, 
residence and post-office address, also the brand of fertilizers sold. 
No person or party shall sell in the State any pulverized leather, 
raw, steamed, roasted or in any form, as a fertilizer, or as an 
ingredient of any fertilizer or manure without explicit printed cer- 
tificates of the fact being conspicuously affixed to every package. 
The director of the experiment station is authorized in person or 
by deputy to take samples for analysis. 
Maine. 
For the purpose of protection from frauds in commercial 
- fertilizers and from adulteration in food, feeds and seeds the 
Maine Fertilizer Control and Experiment Station was established. 
It provides that to every package of commercial fertilizer, the 
price of which exceeds ten dollars, there shall be affixed a 
certificate stating the number of net pounds in the package, the 
~ name or trade-mark of the brand, the name of the manufacturer, 
the place of manufacture and a chemical analysis of the fertilizer. 
For the sale of such fertilizer annually, by April 1 a license must 
be procured by the manufacturer, company or person selling in 
the State, from the board of managers for the station. A license 
fee of fifty dollars for a single brand and fifteen dollars for each 
additional brand is required, and there must be furnished to the 
secretary of the board of managers the names of all the agents 
authorized to sell the fertilizer in the State. The director or his 
deputy is empowered to select annually fertilizers for analysis 
from these different packages, from three different sections of the 
State. 
; Massachusetts. 
The new law, recently enacted in Massachusetts, provides that 
the manufacturer, importer, agent or seller shall, for any 
fertilizer which retails at more than ten dollars per ton, annually, 
before the first day of May, pay to the director of the experi- 
ment station an analysis fee of $5 for each of the three fertilizing 
ingredients—nitrogen, “phosphoric acid and potash—claimed to 
exist in the brand. A printed statement must accompany each 
package giving the name and address of the manufacturer, also 
the chemical composition of the fertilizer. No person shall offer 
for sale any pulverized leather, raw, steamed, roasted or in any 
