ART. 61] MANURES AND FERTILIZERS. 739

required to pay such fee. (b) Every bag, barrel or package of fer-
tilizer, and every parcel or lot, if sold in bulk, must bear in legible
print, or be accompanied by a clear and true statement showing the net
pounds in the package or lot, the name, brand or trade-mark under
which the fertilizer is sold, the name and address of the manufacturer,
importer or manipulator, the place of manufacture or manipulation,
and a chemical analysis stating the percentage of the minimum, and
only the minimum, contained therein of nitrogen in an available form,
or its equivalent in ammonia, of potash soluble in distilled water, and
of available phosphoric acid in lieu .of the available phosphoric acid
the soluble phosphoric acid and the reverted phosphoric acid may be
given, it shall be lawful to state the maximum percentage of chlorine
and the minimum of insoluble phosphoric acid, in case of unacidulated
bone, tankage, fish or other animal or vegetable matter used as fertil-
izer, it shall be lawful to guarantee the phosphoric acid as total phos-
phoric acid, but it shall be unlawful to include the same constituents
more than once in the guaranteed analysis of any fertilizer, either in
the same form of combination or in a different form of combination.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 2 of the Anno-
tated Code.

1904, art. 61, sec. 3. 1890, ch. 387, sec. 3. 1912, ch. 212.

3. Each failure to comply with any of the conditions of section 2
of this article shall be -punishable by a fine of $100.00 for the first
offense and $200.00 for each subsequent offense; provided, that the
penalty for failure to file .the required statement and pay the fee pro-
vided for within this article within sixty days after the close of the
calendar year shall be two hundred dollars for the first week after the
sixty days' limit, and three hundred dollars for each subsequent week.
Provided further, that no manufacturer, dealer or importer shall be
permitted to register any brand or brands for the next ensuing year
until all the provisions in section 2 have been complied with, including
the statement with the total tonnage sold in this State for the previous
year, and paid the ten cents per ton on this said tonnage.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 2 of the Anno-
tated Code.

1912, ch. 212.

4. It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale, unless the same be
plainly marked "low grade," any acid phosphate or dissolved rock con-
taining less than fourteen (14) per cent, of available phosphoric acid;
(b) any phosphate and potash with less than two per cent, of potash
and with less than twelve per cent, of potash and available phosphoric
acid combined; (c) any ammoniated fertilizer with less than one per
cent, of ammonia or its equivalent in nitrogen, or less than one per
cen.t. of potash, if potash is claimed to be present, and less than ten
per cent, of ammonia, potash and phosphoric acid combined. Any fail-
ure to comply with any of the provisions of this section shall be punish-