1492 MANURES AND FERTILIZERS. [ART. 61

mercial value in dollars and cents of the fertilizer so analyzed
per ton of two thousand pounds, such value to be based upon
the analysis made by the college and upon a standard of valu-
ation to be ascertained, fixed and published by said college,
annually, after conference with the proper officials of adjacent
States.
Snowden v. State, 69 Md. 210.

1890, ch. 387, sec. 6. 1894, ch. 397. 1902, ch. 382
6. All samples of fertilizers for analysis at the Maryland
Agricultural College shall be token from unbroken packages
or bags that have not been damaged or injured in transit or
by exposure and when in the possession of the purchaser or
purchasers within thirty (30) days after coming into their
possession it shall be lawful for any such purchaser or pur-
chasers of any such manures or fertilizers, provided that he
be not a manufacturer, manipulator or agent of either, to
take from any such unbroken packages or bags a sample, not
exceeding two 'pounds, placing the same in bottle or bottles,
jar or jars, which shall then be corked tightly and forwarded
to the Maryland Agricultural College for analysis; that it shall
not be lawful for the said agricultural college or its chemists
to previously demand of any such purchaser or purchasers
so sending said sample or samples for analysis to give any
advices, information or statement to the said college or its
chemists as to any analysis found on the original unbroken
packages or bags from which said sample or samples were
taken or the name or names of any individual, representative,
agent or corporation or firm from which said manures or
fertilizers were purchased; and it shall be the duty of the
agricultural college to have its proper and authorized chemist
to at once make a full and complete analysis of the manures
or fertilizers contained in such bottles, jar or jars, and within
thirty (30) days thereafter return to such person or persons
from whom the sample or samples were received a full and
complete analysis of the said manures or fertilizers sent for
analysis; and it shall be unlawful for any individual or any
representative or agent of any corporation or firm, or any
corporation or firm itself to have, either directly or indirectly,
communication with the agricultural college or its chemist,,
agent or representative or the sender of any sample with
regard to the analysis of any manures or fertilizers sent to the
agricultural college by the purchaser or purchasers thereof
for analysis under the provisions of this section, nor shall