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CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 



Name and Address of Seller and of Buyer. 

 Kind of Manure or Feeding Stuff and quantity purchased. 

 Price per ton, or prices per unit of ingredients. 

 Guaranteed and found analyses, and date when sample was drawn. 

 The actual reports of the association's analyst must accompany the 

 schedules as vouchers, and these will be returned. 



In the case of all analyses which show an inferiority in the whole valuable 

 constituents of 8 per cent, or upwards, it is necessary that no time be lost 

 in communicating with the seller, in order that no deterioration may take 

 place in the reserved sample, which, along with any explanation received 

 from the seller, shall be forthwith forwarded to the Secretary of the High- 

 land and Agricultural Society. 



The following are the forms in which analyses must be reported : — 



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I. Eeports of Analyses of MANURES. 



{On the one side are the analytical details, and on the other the valuable con- 

 stituents, which alone are considered in estimating the value of manure, 



1. Form of Analysis for Superphosphates, Dissolved Boxes, and 

 the like. 



Valuable constituents. 



Phosphoric Acid, in a soluble 



Sl^Lc* • • • • 



Do., in an insoluble state, . 

 Lime, Sulphuric Acid, &c., . 

 Sand and insoluble matter. 



Nitrogen, .... 



= Phosphate of Lime, ) 

 dissolved, . . ) 

 = Do. undissolved, . 



= Ammonia, 



2. Form of Analysis for Bones, Bone Meal, Fish Guano, and the like. 



Valuable constituents. 



Phosphoric Acid, 

 Lime Alkalies, &c., 

 Organic matter. 

 Moisture, 



Sand and insoluble matter. 



= Phosphate of Lime, 

 Yielding Ammonia, , 



3. Form of Analysis for Mixed Manures, Peruvian and Ichaboe 



Guanos, and the like. 

 Phosphoric Acid, in a soluble 



cLcLLvi/* • • • • • • 



Do., in an insoluble state, . 

 Lime, . . . . 



Alkalies, &c., 



Ammonia Salts, . 

 Organic matter, . 

 Moisture, . . . . 

 Sand and insoluble matter, 



Valuable constituents. 



= Phosphate of Lime, \ 



dissolved, 

 = Do., undissolved, 



f Potash, 



f 



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= Sulphate of Potash, 



1^ Nitrates = Ammonia 

 Yielding Ammonia 

 Yielding Ammonia 



