EXPERIMENT STATION. 



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FERTILIZERS.* 



Analyses. 



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 mauufacturei's 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 for at 

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

 interfere with their legitimate private use. The Station, how- 

 ever, 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 18'83, two hundred and nineteen (219) samples of fertil- 

 izers have been analyzed. Of these, 17 were examined for private 

 parties, and the remainder, 102, for the general use of the citizens 

 of the State. 



The samples analyzed for the public benefit have in a few cases 

 only been sent in by purchasers and consumers. Most of them 

 have been supplied by agents of the Station who during the 

 spring and early summer endeavored to visit all sections of the 

 State, to take one or more samples of every brand of fertilizer 

 oifered for sale in the State, and to take them from the stock of 

 dealers in remote places as well as from centers of trade. 



* 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 forrqer Reports. 



