EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT. 



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COTTON-SEED MEAL. 



[Sent by E. S. Wahner, Hatfield, Mass.] 



The article is of good quality, and was obtained by bolt- 

 ing a coarse cotton-seed meal. Eighty-one pounds of the 

 above was obtained from one hundred pounds of the latter. 

 The coarse portion — nineteen per cent. — has been analyzed 

 to ascertain its fitness as a fertilizer with the following 

 results : — 



Coarse portion of Cotton-Seed Meal for fertilizing purposes. 

 (Sent by E. S. Warner, Hatfield, Mass.) 



Moisture, at 100° C, 



Per cent. 



7.09 



Organic and volatile matter, ... . . 93.465 



Ash constituents, ' , . . 6.535 



100.000 



Per cent. 



Nitrogen in organic compounds, 5.900 



Potassium oxide, 1797 



Calcium oxide, 0.263 



Magnesium oxide, 0.223 



Phosphoric acid, 2.341 



Insoluble matter, 1 784 



