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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



BoisTES. 



I. 



Coarse Bones of P. Cooper, New- York City. 

 (Hon. R. Goodman of Lenox, Mass.) 



Organic and volatile matter 

 Ash constituents 

 Moisture lost at 100° C. 

 Nitrogen . 

 Phosphoric acid 

 Insoluble matter 



n. 



Fine Bones of Messrs. L. B. Darling §• Co., Pawtucket, R.I. 

 (Messrs. Bagg & Batchelder, Springfield, Mass.) 



in. 



Fine Bones of H. B. Arnold, Boston, Mass. 



Nos. I. and IV. are of a similar chemical conclitiou. They 

 are highly rendered, and thus contain less nitrogen and 

 more phosphoric acid than No. II., which is the most valuable 

 article of the samples tested. 



A new process has been applied of late for the manufacture 

 of "fine bones," which aims at the removal of the fat of 

 the bones, without reducing their nitrogenous constituents. 

 A Baltimore firm offers " ground bones " which have been 

 subjected to Adamson's new naphtha vapor-process, and guaran 



