New York Agricultural Experiment Station. C83 



In explanation of the data contained in the table above, we make 

 the following statements : 



(1) On the basis of the monetary value of the deficiency of plant- 

 food constituents, there would be 25 cases of violation under the 

 former law in which the monetary deficiency is less than $1.00, and 

 none of these is a violation under the present law. 



(2) When the monetary deficiency lies between $1.00 and $1.50, 

 there would be 12 cases of violation under the former law and only one 

 of these is a violation under the present law. 



(3) When the monetary deficiency is greater than $1.50 and less 

 than $2.00, there is a total of 8 violations, 5 of which would come 

 under the former law (3 of these being violations also under the 

 present law); the other 3 cases are violations under the present law 

 but not under the former. Since these 3 cases are the only ones of 

 the kind, we will stop here to notice them in more detail. These are 

 cases in which nitrogen is below the guaranteed amount between 10 

 and 20 per ct. of the guaranty, there not being enough excess of 

 potash and phosphoric acid to make up the monetary equivalent of 

 the deficiency of nitrogen. In these cases the nitrogen was not 0.33 

 per ct. below guaranty and would not, therefore, be low enough to 

 make a violation under the former law. These 3 cases are the only 

 ones out of 71 complete fertilizers in which there is under the present 

 law a violation that would not come also under the former law. 



(4) When the monetary deficiency lies between $2.00 and $2.50, 

 there would be 5 violations under the former law, 4 of which are vio- 

 lations also under the present law. 



(5) Taking the cases where the monetary deficiency is greater 

 than $2.50, there are, all told, 21 cases which would be violations un- 

 der the former law, of which 16 are violations under the present law. 



(6) In the case of complete fertilizers, where the monetary de- 

 ficiency exceeds $1.50, the number of violations under the present law 

 is more nearly equal to those under the former law; but, even so, too 

 many cases escape being violations under the new law where the 

 monetary loss to the purchaser is in excess of $2.00 a ton. 



(7) In the case of fertilizing materials, there would be a total of 37 

 violations under the former law, of which 7 are violations under the 

 present law. In 18 cases in which the monetary deficiency is less than 

 $1.00, there are no violations under the present law; in 3 cases where 

 the deficiency is between $1.00 and $1.50, there is 1 violation under 



