PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Agricultural Experiment Station
Circular No. 96 LaFayette, Ind., May, 1920
THE FERTILIZER CONTROL LAW AND HOW TO COMPLY WITH IT
E. G. Proulx
This circular is prepared for the purpose of furnishing information concerning the law regulating the sale and inspection of commercial fertilizers in Indiana as passed by the Legislature of 1881, and amended in 1899 and 1901. The circular contains the full text of the law, method of administering the same and working regulations of the State Chemist’s office as related to the sale of commercial fertilizers.
Section 1. Certificate to be Filed With State Chemist.
Before any commercial fertilizer is sold or offered for sale in the State of Indiana, the manufacturer, dealer, importer, agent, or party who causes it to be sold or offered for sale, by sample or otherwise, within the State of Indiana, shall file with the State Chemist of Indiana a statement that he desires to offer for sale in Indiana material for manurial purposes, and also a certificate for registration, stating the name of the manufacturer, the location of the principal office of the manufacturer, the name under which the fertilizer will be sold, the name of the towns in Indiana in which it will be offered for sale, and the minimum percentage of nitrogen, of potassium oxide (K„0) soluble in water, of phosphoric acid (PA), and in case of acidulated goods the minimum percentage of 'vater soluble and reverted phosphoric acid, and of insoluble phosphoric acid, which the manufacturer or party offering the fertilizer for sale guarantees the fertilizer to contain.