The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-07-06
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Manures and Fertilizers.

hanures and Fertilizers.
Large quantities are manufactured and
sold in this State, and the law of 1870
was intended to guard dealers and farmers
against being imposed upon by an indiffer
ent or worthless article. We publish the
said law for the information Of manufac-
tuners, farmers, and all concerned. It
reads as follows:
All commercial manures and arti6cially
manufactured or manipulated fertilizers,
brought into or manufactured in the State
Of Maryland for sale and sold or kept for
sale therein, shall have permanently affixed
to every sack, bag, barrel, box or other
package thereof stamped or printed label,
which shall specify legibly the name or
names Of the manufacturer, or manufac-
turers, his, her or their place Of business,
the net weight of each sack, bag, barrel,
box or other package, the component parts
of such manure or fertilizer, the per cent
age by weight, which it contains, of the
following constituents, viz, Of phosphoric
acid soluble in pare cold water, Of phos-
phoric acid insoluble in pure cold water,
of available ammonia, potash and soda.
That if any person shall sell or keep for
sale any commercial manures, or artifcially
manufactured, or manipulated fertilizers
not labeled in accordance with the require
ments of the next preceding Section or
shall afix any label to any sack, bag, bar
rel, box or other package, not expressing
truly the component parts of said manures
or fertilizers, or expressing a larger per
centage Of the constituents or either Of
them mentioned in the next preceding
section, than is contained therein, shall be
punished by a fine of fifty dollars for the
first offence aud seventy-fve dollars for
the second, and each subsequent Of
fence, to be recovered on indictment and
conviction in the Circuit Court of Balti-
more City or the Circuit Court for the
County, within whose jurisdiction said
offence may be committed, one-half there
of to be paid to the informcr, the other
half to the State.
That any purchaser of commercial ma
nures or artifcially manufactured or ma
nipulated fertilizers, bearing labels as pro-
vided for in Section one Of this Article,
who shall be injured or defrauded by the
contents of the sacks, bags, barrels, boxes
or other package not conforming in quail
~ and quantity to the labels thereon, may
recover from the seller or sellers thereof,
in an action Of debt, an amount equal to
the purchase money Of such manure or fer
tilizer; and in ease the purchase is made of
an agent Of any person or persons residing
out of the limits Of the State of Maryland,
manufacturing, compromising, preparing
aud furnishing for sale any such CONNER
cial mannres or fertilizers, the purchaser
thereof may at his option proceed by at
tachment, as now provided for by law in
cases of non-residents and Ascending
debtors, against any property, rights or
credits Of any person or persons selling,
manufacturing, compromising, preparing
or furnishing said manures or fertilizers,
when such property, rights and credits
can be found within the limits of the
State of Maryland
4. That she words Commercial ma
nures, artifcially manufactured or manip-
ulated fertilizers" shall be taken and con-
strued to include all manures and fertili-
GERS which shall be sold for greater price
than one cent per pound, and that any ar
rangement or agreement, verbal or written,
made by and between any seller and
purchaser of said manures or fertilizers, |
for the purpose of exoneating the seller
or manufacturer from liability for viola
ton Of any of the provisions of this Arti- |
Gle, shall not exempt such seller, manufac-
turer, compOunder, preparer or furnisher
of said manures or fertilizers from indict- |
ment and fine as is hereinbefore provided
for. Nothing in the provisions Of this
Act shall prevent the buyer and seller
from making contracts in reference to the
price to be paid or the quality of the fer
tilizer contracted for.
3. That by the term soluble phosphoric
acid, whenever used in this Act, is meant
phOsphorie acid in any form or combina-
tion readily soluble in pure cold water,
and by the term insoluble phosphoric acid
is meant phOsphoric acid in any form or
combination which requires the action of
an acid upon it to cause it to become
readily soluble in pure cold water
g. That any manufacturer, dealer, agent
or other person or persons who shall adul-
terate, add to, or take anything from, any
commercial manures or arti6cially manu-
featured or manipulated fertilizers labeled