EXPERIMENT STATIOIST. 15 



I (we), the undersiofned, hereby report to the DirecttDr of the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, as required by law,' that I am agent (we are agents) 

 for the sale of (here give correct full name and brand of fertilizer) manufactured 

 (imported, furnished) by (here give name and address of manufacturer, importer 

 or party from wliom the fertilizer was obtained) and hold myself (ourselves) pre- 

 pared to deliver to said Director a sample of the same on his demand. 



Sign with name, 



Residence, 



Post OfBce Address, 



And Date. 



Blanks for making out these Reports will be supplied on appli- 

 cation to the Experiment Station. 



On receiving Statements and analysis-fees from manufacturers 

 and Reports from dealers, the Station will issue receipts for the 

 same. 



FERTILIZERS.* 



In respect to its terms, the Station makes two classes of analy- 

 ses of fertilizers and fertilizing materials : the first for the benefit 

 of farmers, gardeners, and the public generally ; the second for 

 the private use of manufacturers and dealers. Analyses of the 

 first class are made gratuitously, and the results are published as 

 speedily and widely as possible for the guidance of purchasers and 

 consumers. Those of the second class are charged lor at moderate 

 rates, and their results are not published in a way to interfeie 

 with their legitimate private use. The Station, however, distinctly 

 reserves the liberty to use at discretion, for the public benefit, all 

 results obtained in its laboratory, and in no case will enter into 

 any privacy that can work against the public good. 



During 1882, one hundred and fifty-one (151) samples of fertil- 

 izers have been analyzed. Of these, 34 were examined for private 

 parties, and the remainder, 117, for the general use of the citizens 

 of the State. 



The samples analyzed for the public benefit have been sent in 

 from various quarters of the State, ia most instances by actual 

 purchasers and consumers, in a few cases by dealers, while the 

 Station itself, through authorized agents, has drawn a considerable 

 number of samples from the stock of dealers and agents. 



All the analyses of the first class are made on samples under- 

 stood to have been taken in accordance with the printed instruc- 

 tions which the Station supplies to all applicants. Here follows a 

 copy of these instructions. 



* The matter of this and of several subsequent pages, explanatory of the samp- 

 ling and valuation of fertilizers, is copied with a few appropriate alterations from 

 the Report for 1881. This repetition appears to be necessary for the use of read- 

 ers who have not seen former Reports. 



