The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-07

70 BE DISCUSSED TODAY
A Joint Meeting Of the Committees on
Agriculture Called.
sETTERLAw FOR CONTROL OF CROP PEST
Uniagged Fertilizers 10 be Seized and Sold
Like Unstamped Whsk y and Certain
Grades Of FERTILE Are to
be 0uiIsWed.

be 0uisWed.
| The biennial report of the State Board
of Agriculture to the General Assembly
| is now in the hands Of the State prin-
ters and will be issued in a few days.
1t comprises the letter of transmittal
and reports of the following ofcers:
Commissioner of Agriculture, State
Chemist, immigration Commissioner,
State Entomologst, and the Curator of
the Museum.
The legislative committee of the
Board which has been in session for
several days completed it's work yes
terday and joint meeting of the House
and Senate committees on Agriculture
has been called for this afternoon to.
hear and consider its recommendations
Though quite a number of changes
in the present law are suggested by
the Board only two or three of them
are of general interest The most i'm
portant OF these are the regulations
in regard to the analysis and sale of
fertilizers within the State.
The committee asks that the former
law in regard to analysis be so amend
ed as to allow a change in the amount
Of phosphoric acid and potash in fer
tilizers for different soils and different
crops, provided the amount of either of
these ingredients left out is made up in
the amount of the other put in For
example, under the law hitherto in force
there had to be s per cent of phosphoric
acid, ! of potash and : of ammonia,
making il in all. The change proposed
is to still require these IL points in the
aggregate, but in doing this the potash
may be increased or diminished pro-
vided the increase or diminutiOn is made
up by the amount of phosphoric acid
and vice versa.
The recommendation of the legislative
committee of the Board on this point
is as follows:
No brand or name shall be changed
to a lower grade at any subsequent reg
istration to that at which said brand
was first entered. The said commits
sioner shall publish list of brands or
trade marks arranged alphabetically in
groups of brands or names containing
the same amount Of identical conSti-
tutuents, e. g., all goods containing phos-
phoric acid s per cent. nitrogen , per
cent. potash, per cent. shall compose
a group and so with others. Goods con-
tanned in the same group shall be al
lowed to he entered on the registration
by but one name, unless the material
from which the phosphoric acid, nitro
gen or potash in the goods is derived
is different from that in the goods al
ready registered: then there may be q
name or brand entered for each differ
ent material. y brand name entered
by one person shall not be allowed TO
be registered by another. The person
whom the records OF the Department
show to have first registered the name
shall be permitted to retain it, subject,
however. TO appeal 10 the Board to de-
termine who is entitled to the brand;
and the said label or stamp shall truly
set forth the name, location and trade
mark Of the manufacturer, also the
chemical composition of the contents
of such package and the real percentage
of any Of the following ingredients as
serted to be present. to-wit soluble
and prccipitated phosphoric acid So
luble potassa and ammonia. with the
date of its analyzation and that the
requirements of the law have been
complied with. 1t shall be unlawful
to sell or offer for sale fertilizers and
fertiizing materials not coming up to
thc following minimum requirements:
Il. Any complete fertilizer contain
ing phosphoric acid, ammonia and
potash when the sum of the available
phosphoric acid and potash do not
amount to II per centum in the aggre-
gate.
-. Any fertilizer containing phos
phoric acid and potash when the sum
of the available phosphoric acid and
potash DO not amount to 10 per centum.
20. Any fertilizer containing phoS-
phoric acid and ammonia. when the
available phosphorc acid and ammonia
do not amount to 10 per centum.
II. Any fertilizer containing am
monia and potash when the sum of am
monia and potash do not amount to 10
per Ccntum.
20. Any acid phosphate which con-
taiuS less than 10 per centum of avail
able phosphoric acid. and no mixed
fertilizer of any kind shall be sold
which contains less than , per centum
of either ammonia or potash, or both
where they are claimed in the same
fertilizer"
Another recommendation is that fer
tilizcr companies be required to file with
the Commissioner of Agriculture a
statement of the sources from which
the ingredients used in its brands are
derived. AS this may. in some eases.
be trade secret. such statements will
not be made public, but will be regis
tered in the Commissioners office.
Also the law in regard to untagged
fertilizer viii be changed so as to treat
it like unstamped whiskcy. that is to
say it viii be. when found, seized by
the Department and sold
The proposed bill outlaws all fertiliz-
ers containing leather. hair. hoof-mea
anR other materials which show chemi-
acaTly in the analysis but are not avail
able in the soil as plant food. The