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(c) The brand or trade name of the material.
(d) The name of the form of the material.
(e) The net weight, when the material is sold in packages.
(f) The fineness of the material, if in a ground or powdered form,
showing the percentage passing the twenty mesh sieve, the sixty mesh
sieve, and the one hundred mesh sieve.
(g) The minimum per cent, of oxide of calcium (CaO), and of oxide
of magnesium (MgO), and, in the case of gypsum the minimum per cent,
of calcium sulphate (CaSO4).
(h) With respect to all burned forms of liming materials, including mix-
tures of burned and unburned liming materials, statement of the total max-
imum per cent, contained of oxides and calcium and oxides of magnesium,
which are combined as carbonates. The information given in the said
statement shall be held to be the guaranty of the manufacturer or importer
that the goods to which said statement refers are of the kind and quality
or composition and fineness so set forth.
(i) After July 1, 1935, the word "lime" shall not be placed anywhere
on a package containing agricultural liming material which has less than
sixty per cent, of its total weight in the form of oxides or hydroxides of
calcium or magnesium, except in the required statement of minmium
analysis or as part of the name of the company manufacturing or selling it.
1935, ch. 512, sec. 107.
107. For the purposes of this sub-title, the term "agricultural liming
materials" means any substances that contain calcium and magnesium in
condition and quantity suitable for use in neutralizing soil acidity, or that
are used as ingredients or reagents in the preparation of any fungicide or
insecticide. The term "gypsum" means products consisting chiefly of
calcium sulphate.
1935, ch. 512, sec. 108.
108. The statement required by Section 106 shall, in the case of goods
sold in package, be plainly printed upon the package, or upon a tag or label
fastened thereto, of such quality and in such manner that it shall not be
detached in handling, and, in the case of goods sold in bulk, the said
statement shall be delivered to the purchaser either with the invoice there-
for or with the goods.
1935, ch. 512, sec. 109.
109. Every manufacturer or importer of agricultural liming materials
and/or gypsum shall, on or before the first day of January of each year,
or before offering them for sale in this Commonwealth, file annually with
the State Chemist as appointed by the State Board of Agriculture a state-
ment of the names and number of brands of such materials, that he shall
offer for sale during the next ensuing calendar year, or remainder thereof,
together with a copy of the statement declaring the composition of these
several brands of said materials, as required by Section 106.
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