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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Off. Doc. 



The cases of deficiency noted during the past eleven seasons in the 

 goods as compared with their guaranties expressed in percentage of 

 the total number of goods of each class analyzed, are as follows: 



Percentage of Deficiency, 1899-1904. 



bo 



c: 



u 

 a. 



Complete fertilizers 



Dissolved bone 



Rock and potash 



Dissolved rock 



Ground bone 



All classes except miscellaneous, 



38.4 

 50.0 

 19.1 

 13.8 

 18.4 

 30.9 



39.5 

 % 

 50.7 

 22.0 

 36.3 

 39.6 



*Only two samples analyzed. 



tOnly one sample analyzed. 



jOnly two samples analyzed for which no guaranties are recorded. 



Marked variations in the general percentage of deficiency occur 

 from year to year. The average percentage of deficiency of all 

 classes of fertilizers during the past ten seasons is 33.5, so that the 

 deficiency this season is about 6 per cent, above the average. Of 138 

 samples of complete fertilizers in which there was deficiency at some 

 point, there were 51 in which there was not distinct excess above 

 guaranty at some other point. 



