Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station: 1887 Sec. 4. Any farmer or other resident of this State, pur chasing for his own use a commercial fertilizer that has been duly licensed for sale in the State, may require the dealer to draw in his presence a sufficient quantity of said commercia fertilizer to serve as a sample for chemical analysis, and said dealer shall certify that the sample drawn fairly and correctly represents the average composition of the fertilizer sold. The above mentioned sample shall be sent by the buyer in a sealed vessel, charges prepaid, to the State agricultural experiment station, accompanied by a certified statement from the buyer, giving the name and address of the manufacturer, the name and address of the agent or person from whom it was purchased, the date of its manufacture, the date and place of drawing the sam ple, and its guaranteed composition and selling price. The director of the State agricultural experiment station shall cause to be analyzed, free of charge, all such samples, and shall send copies of the analysis, as soon as made, to the person send ing the sample and to the dealer from whom it was purchased provided, that there shall not be required in any one year more than two such analyses of the same brand of fertilizer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.