CONNECTICUT AGKICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 5 



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Report of the Director : Fertilizers — 



Special Fertilizers a 4:6 



Tables of Analyses and Valuations 44-45 



Table of Comparison of Special Manures 47 



Bone Manures — 47 



Method of Valuation 48 



Tables of Analyses and Valuations 52-53 



On the Solubility of Bone in Ammonium Citrate 51 



Dry Ground Fish - 54 



Nitrate of Soda •. 56 



Sulphate of Ammonia -.. _ 56 



Meat and Plaster ...- 57 



Cotton Seed and Castor Pomace 57 



Potash Salts ._.: 58 



Analyses - 60 



Saltpeter Refuse .- - 59 



Plaster -.. -- -. 61 



Limestone Rock • 63 



Rock from New Canaan 65 



Quick Lime 66 



Waste Lime from Paper Works 66 



Infusorial Earth 67 



Ashes of Cotton Seed Hulls 67 



Composition of House Ashes 6S 



Leached Wood Ashes . - 70 



Swamp Muck _ 71 



Review of the Fertilizer Market 72 



Explanations of Market Quotations 75 



Fluctuations in price of Fertilizing Materials during the last 2^ 



years 77 



On the Composition of Leaves at Different Periods of Growth .. 77 



Composting Dead Leaves 81 



Case of Poisoning with Paris Green _ 82 



J'eeding Stuffs - 83 



Maize Meal and Hominy Feed 83 



Gluten Meal 85 



Dried Brewers' Grains 86 



Wheat Bran, Middlings and Shorts 87 



Cotton Seed Meal and New Process Linseed Meal 88 



Table of Composition of American Feeding Stuffs 90-95 



Seed Tests 96 



Onion Seed 96 



•• " temperature most suitable for germinating 99 



Lettuce Seed 101 



Seeds from U. S. Department of Agriculture 102 



Apparatus for Testing the Vitality of Seeds 103 



Instractions for Sampling Seeds 105 



