Excerpt from Commercial Fertilizers: Report for 1955

The term commercial fertilizers, -as used in the Connecticut fertilizer statute, includes any and every substance imported, manufactured, pre pared or sold for fertilizing or manuring or soil amendment purposes, ex cept barnyard manure and stable manure which have not been artificially treated or manipulated, marl and lime. An amendment of the law in 1949 permitted fertilizers to be labelled with guaranties of elements other than nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, but did not change the requirement that mixed fertilizers must contain at least per cent of nitrogen, and l per cent of either phosphoric acid or potash, for guaranties of these elements to be made. Phosphorus must be declared as available phosphoric acid (except in the case of bone, tankage and other natural organic materials, where total phosphoric acid is guar anteed), and potassium as water-soluble potash; all other elements must be guaranteed in terms of percentages of the elements, not as oxides or salts. A registration fee of payable annually, is charged for each element guaranteed in each brand of fertilizer; there. Is also a six-cent tonnage tax, payable semiannually.

While manufacturers usually register their own fertilizers, if a retailer sells a fertilizer manufactured by an out of state firm, and that firm re fuses to register, under the law the retailer ls responsible for registration fees and tonnage taxes. The retailer, therefore, should assure himself that the requirements of the law have been met by the manufacturers of the brands which he handles, or himself be prepared to meet all these requirements.

The law exempts from registration, and from other requirements, only: (1) fertilizers passing through the State in transit; (2) fertilizers and fer tilizer materials shipped to regular fertilizer factories to be used for manufacturing purposes; and (3) fertilizers and fertilizer chemicals sold to The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station for experimental purposes.

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