CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 5 



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 Report of the Director : Fertilizers — 



Special Fertilizers, _ 36 



Table of Analyses and Valuations, 34-35 



Table of Comparison of Special Manures, 37 



Bone Manures, 37 



Method of Valuation, 37 



Tables of Analyses and Valuations, 40-41 



Dry Ground Fish, 42 



Nitrates of Potash and Soda, - 42 



Sulphate of Ammonia, 44 



Dried Blood and Tankage, 45 



Cotton Seed and Castor Pomace, _ 45 



Fowl Manure, - - 46 



Tripe Refuse, .- 46 



Damaged Tea, 47 



Potash Salts, .- 47 



Table of Analyses and Valuations, 48-49 



Land Plaster, - - 50 



Lime, - 50 



Limestone, - - — 52 



' SheUMarl, 52 



"Norfolk Fertilizer," ..- 52 



Fossil Marl, _ - - 58 



Marijie Mud, — 54 



Review of the Fertilizer Market, -. 56 



Explanations of Market Quotations, . 58 



Fluctuations in price of Fertilizing Materials during the last 19 



months, _. - 60 



Home-made Superphosphate, 61 



Peat or Swamp Muck, •. _ 62 



Composition of Trap Rock, 64 



Soils, 65 



On Reducing Bones with Ashes, - 70 



Salt and Saltpetre for Preserving Food, 71 



Chemical Analyses of samples of Salt, 73 



Mechanical Analyses of samples of Salt, 75 



Poisons, 77 



Case of Suspected Poisoning, 77 



Galvanized Iron as a source of Poison, _ 78 



Tinned Copper, so-called, a source of Lead Poison, 78 



Milk- 

 Chemical Composition of Milk, 79 



Tests of the Quality of Milk, 81 



Specific Gravity Test, 81 



Test by Chemical Analysis, _ 81 



Analyses of Guernsey Milk, 82 



Analyses of the Mixed Milk of Herds, 84 



Variations in Milk-Solids, _ 88 



