CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 



245 



Table. 



Variety. 



From Hiram Sibley & Co. : 



Optimus 



Rochester. _ _ 



Large Red Smooth Round 



Dwarf Orangefield 



Large Yellow. ._ 



Autocrat 



Cardinal 



Livingston Favorite 



From W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 



Golden Queen 



Turner Hybrid 



From Roht. Buist: 

 The Prize Belle 



From Frank Ford & Son: 



Market Champion 



Advance 



From A. D. Perry & Co. : 

 Scoville's Hybrid. 



Time of 

 Germina- 

 tion. 

 Days. 



11 

 8 

 11 

 17 

 17 

 11 

 10 

 10 



10 

 10 



10 



10 

 10 



11 



Productiveness. 



Plant. 

 Lbs. 



IIJ^ 



7 



16^ 

 16>i 



lOM 



14 



9 



8X 



Fruit. 

 Lbs. 



16M 

 20>^ 

 17i^ 



27 

 17 



163^ 

 31^ 



16 

 15% 



Per 



cent of 

 Rot. 



7.5 

 95 

 75 

 

 

 65 

 75 

 90 



90 

 15 



90 

 



50 



Agricultural College, ) 

 Septembar 30, 1886. \ 



L. H. BAILEY, Jr., 



Professor of Horticulture and. 



Landscape Gardening. 



NO. 20.— CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT, 



, ANALYSIS OF COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. 



Act No. 26 of Session Laws of 1885, requires the inspection and analysis of 

 all commercial fertilizers (the retail price of which is more than ten dollars) 

 before they are offered for sale in this State. In order to call the attention of 

 manufacturers and dealers in commercial fertilizers to this law and to secure a 

 prompt compliance with its requirements, I sent the following circular to all 

 the interested parties : 



CIRCULAR TO MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. 



THE SALE OF COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS IN MICHIGAN. 



[No. 36, Session Laws of 1885.] 



An Act to provide for the inspection of commercial fertilizers and to regiilate the 



sale thereof. 



Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact. That any person or persons 

 who shall sell or offer for sale in this State any commercial fertilizer, the retail price of 

 which exceeds ten dollars per ton, shall affix on the outside of every package contain- 

 ing such fertilizer a plainly printed certificate, stating the number of net pounds there- 

 in; the name or trade mark under which such article is sold; the name of the manu- 

 facturer; the place of manufacture, and a chemical analysis, stating the percentage of 



