REPORT OF BUREAU OF INSPECTION. lOl 



H. Stone, Fort Fairfield, May 13, 1915. The goods from which 

 this sample was taken were purchased under the following 

 analysis : 



Total Avl. phosphoric Total phosphoric Water soluble 



nitrogen. acid. acid. potash. 



4.11% 8.00% 9.00% 10.00% 



The result of the analysis of the sample showed : 



3-95% 7-83% 8-34% 9-79% 



showing a deficiency in all the ingredients. 



The services of Bernard Archibald, County Attorney of 

 Aroostook county, were enlisted and on October 20, 19 15, 

 criminal proceedings were instituted against the Armour Fer- 

 tilizer Company before Judge Fessenden, a Trial Justice of 

 Fort Fairfield, and an attempt was made to present to him 

 fairly and impartially the facts of the case and the evidence at 

 hand. After the evidence for the state had been presented, 

 without hearing the defense of the Fertilizer Company, Judge 

 Fessenden declared a non suit and the defendants were dis- 

 charged. 



The Standard Guano Company. — Another brand of fertilizer 

 which attracted our attention was the product of the Standard 

 Guano Company. Advices were received from Rufus P. 

 Ayer of Freedom that he had recently purchased twenty tons 

 of Five — Eight — Seven Fertilizer, manufactured by the Stand- 

 ard Guano Company, and that — ^having sent samples to a 

 chemist — ^^had received an analysis showing a marked deficiency 

 in potash. As a result of this report, a deputy of the depart- 

 ment was sent to Freedom with instructions to take samples 

 not only of the goods found at Mr. Ayer's but also from any 

 that might have goods from the same carload lot, or from any 

 of the same brand that he might find in that vicinity. As a 

 result of this inspection, two samples of Five — Eight — Seven, 

 manufactured by the Standard Guano Company, were obtained 

 from Rufus P. Ayer, and two other samples of Five — Eight — 

 Seven were taken from Nicholas Walton of Thorndike, one 

 sample of Four — Eight — Four from E. W. Downer, Freedom, 

 and a sample of Four — Eight — Seven from each, E. W. Down- 

 er of Freedom and Robert W. Betts of Thorndike ; later, other 

 samples of Five — Eight — Seven were obtained in other parts 

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