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MANURES AND FERTILIZERS. 815
ARTICLE 61.
MANURES AND FERTILIZERS.1
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1. Meaning of terms.
2-6. Conditions of sale; fee; labels;
brands.
7-12. Analysis by University of Mary-
land; samples; obstruction or in-
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terference with State Chemist;
penalty.
13. Rules and regulations.
14. When brand fees do not apply.
15. Penalties; prosecutions.
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An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1922, ch. 244, sec. 1. 1931, ch. 540, sec. 1.
1. The term "fertilizer" as used in this Article shall mean any com-
mercial fertilizer, or any article, substance or mixture sold, offered or
exposed for sale, for manurial purposes in the State of Mayland of which
the selling price shall be more more than $5.00 per ton of two thousand
pounds, but shall not include ground gypsum, lime, ground limestone,
ground shells, dung of all poultry or dung of domestic animals, in bulk,
when sold as such and when not mixed with other fertilizer or fertilizer
materials. The term "State Chemist" shall mean the professor in charge
of the Chemical Department of the University of Maryland, who shall
be ex-officio State Chemist. The term "brand" shall mean the full name,
brand and trade-mark under which a fertilizer is sold, together with a
statement of the percentage of the valuable ingredients contained in said
fertilizer.
1931, ch. 540, sec. 2.
2. Every manufacturer, jobber or manipulator of commercial fertilizer
and materials used in the manufacture of the same, who may desire to sell
or offer for sale in the State of Maryland such fertilizer or fertilizer mate-
rials before offering the same for sale shall file or register with the Univer-
sity of Maryland upon forms furnished by said university the name of each
and every brand of fertilizer which it is desired to sell in the said State
by any said manufacturer, jobber or manipulator, or their agents, together
with the name and address of said manufacturer, jobber or manipulator,
and the guaranteed analysis of said fertilizer, stating the sources and the
percentages thereof from which the nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash
are derived.
Before any person or firm shall sell or offer for sale any pure or mixed
culture of micro-organism or other material to be used for promoting
directly or indirectly the growth of higher plants, he or they shall secure
a permit and shall file or register with the University of Maryland a
1 Relative to this article as it formerly stood, see Snowden v. State, 69 Md. 209,
and State v. Long, 94 Md. 637.
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