970 MANURES AND FERTILIZERS. [ART. 61.

two per centum variation in the amount of ammonia, three per
centum of the amount of phosphoric acid, and one per centum of
the amount of potash.

License.

1886, ch. 477, sec. 2.

2. Every manufacturer, importer or dealer in commercial
fertilizers, before selling or offering to sell any commercial fertil-
izer within this State, shall take out a license for the sale of
fertilizer, which license shall be rated-upon the amount contem-
plated to be sold, as follows: for one hundred tons or less, five dol-
lars ; for every additional one hundred tons, or part thereof, two dol-
lars additional; provided, that no license shall be charged upon
lots ordered by farmers to be made after their own formula for
their own use; said license to be prepared and furnished by the
comptroller of the treasury, and to be issued from the first day of
May to the first day of November, in each year, and to be good,
until the succeeding first day of May; provided, that when any
manufacturer in this State shall have taken ont a license, as.
herein provided, it shall not be necessary for any person to take
out a license to sell the fertilizer manufactured by the manufac-
turer who has taken out such license; and provided further, that
if any person or company shall sell or dispose of in any one
year a larger quantity than the number of tons contemplated in
the application for the license, he or they shall return to the
comptroller under oath, a statement of such excess sold, and also
return the amount of money due to the State for such excess
sold, to be rated at two dollars for every additional one hundred,
tons or part of one hundred tons.

Ibid. sec. 3.

3. It shall be the duty of the Maryland agricultural college to
analyze all samples of fertilizer sent to it for this purpose from,
any farmer, planter or grower or manufacturer of this State,
and purchased by him in this State, without charge, and send to
the person sending said samples the result of said analysis; and
it shall be the right and privilege of every farmer, planter or
grower, residing in this State, to send samples of fertilizer pur-
chased by him, said specimens not to be less than twenty-five