1444 MANURES AND FEETILIZERS. [ART. 61

college shall have the right to take samples as provided by this article
from any lot or parcel of fertilizer in transitu or in possession or
keeping of any manufacturer, manipulator, dealer or agent and sold
or offered for sale in this State; and it shall be the duty of the Mary-
land Agricultural College to send in the result of every sample of
fertilizer to the person from whom such sample was taken or received
and also to publish from time to time the results of the analysis made
by the said college of the samples sent to or procured by it for such
purpose; and it shall be the duty of the Maryland Agricultural Col-
lege, when reporting or publishing the result of any analysis made, to
state the commercial 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 valuation to
be ascertained, fixed and published by said college, annually, after con-
ference with the proper officials of adjacent States.

The provisions of this section and section 2, compared with the act of

1882, ch. 451, applicable to Harford county. The object and requirements

of this section. Snowden v. State, 69 Md. 209.

1904, art. 61, sec. 6. 1890, ch. 387, sec. 6. 1894, ch. 397. 1902, ch. 382.
6. All samples of fertilizers for analysis at the Maryland Agricul-
tural College shall be taken 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 pur-
chaser or purchasers 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 indi-
vidual, 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 con-
tained in such bottles, jar or jars, and within thirty (30) days there-
after 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 indi-
vidual 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