No; 7. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



679 



A suniinui-y ul' the analyses made this season may be presented 



as follows: 



01 



c 



•a 

 a 



9 

 O 



Number of analyses 



Moisture, per cent 



Phosphoric acid: 



Total, per cent 



Soluble, per cent 



Reverted, per cent 



Insoluble, per cent 



Potash, per cent 



Nitrogen, per cent., 



Mechanical analyses of bone- 



Fine, 



Coarse, 



Commercial valuation, (dollars per ton) 23.94 



Average selling price, (dollars per ton) 22.34 



Comn.ercial value of samples whose selling price is ascer 

 tained, (dollars per ton) 



287 

 9.39 



10.29 

 4.30 

 3.99 

 2.00 

 3.24 

 1.24 



104 

 8.81 



11.13 

 5.49 

 4. 48 

 I.IC. 

 3.62 



16. SO 

 16.43 



6 

 6.61 



13.65 

 7.08 

 3.48 

 3.09 



1.85 



26.05 

 22.48 



23.88 I 16.17 26.05 



49 



7.95 



15.31 

 9.14 

 4.61 

 1.56 



14.78 

 14.31 



14.86 



30 

 4.23 



22.15 



3.03 



09 



31 



27. SO 



29.18 



27.90 



The cases of departure of goods from th 'Ir guaranteed composi- 

 tion observed this season, including only those cases in which it 

 amounted to two-tenths per cent, or more, were as follows: 



Summary of Instances of Deficiency from Guaranty. 



c 



3 



o 



Deficient in four constituents, 



Deficient in three constituents 



Deficient in two constituents 



Deficient in one constituent, 



Total number of samples in which deficiencies occur. 



1 



S 



27 



78 



114 



10 

 30 

 40 



2 

 12 

 14 



2 



10 

 12 



The cases of deficiency noted during the past ten seasons in goods 

 as compared with their guaranties and expressed in percentage of the 

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



Percentage of Deficiency 1903-1908. 



•Only two samples analyzed for which no guarantees are reported. 

 tOnly two samples analyzed for which guarantees are recorded. 

 jOnly four Bamples analyzed. 



