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distilled water, and available phosphoric acid which the fertilizer con- 

 taius. Each importer, inauufacturer, or manipulator is required to send 

 a sealed sauiple of not less than 2 i)Ounds of each brand of fertilizer to 

 the Maryland Agricultural College. Failure to comply with these pro- 

 visions of the law is punishable by a fine of $100 for the first otfense and 

 $200 for each subsequent offense. All sellers of fertilizers are required 

 to send lists of the brands they have for sale to the college under pen- 

 alty of $25 for the first failure so to do and $50 for each subsequent 

 offense. The college is re(iuired to analyze free of charge all samples 

 of fertilizers sent to it by purchasers and to procure and analyze samples 

 of all brands sold in the State each year. The reports of these analyses 

 must be accompanied by commercial valuations. These analyses are 

 to be paid for out of the fund accruing from fees for fertilizer licenses, 

 but the college is not to receive more than $3,000 for this purpose in a 

 a single year. In case of fraud committed by the seller, the purchaser 

 may recover an amount equal to the purchase money and costs of the 

 suit. For adulteration or misbranding of fertilizers the penalty is fine 

 and imprisonment, not to exceed $200 for the former and six months 

 for the latter. 



Massachusetts State Station, Bulletin No. 37, July, 1890 (pp. 16). 



Meteorology (p. 1). — Summary for the four months ending June 

 30, 1890. 



Feeding experiments with lambs, (3. A. Goessmann, Ph. D. (pp. 

 1-8). — These experiments are the first of a series devised for the pur- 

 pose of ascertaining the cost of feed when fattening lambs for the meat 

 market by means of winter fodder rations. Six lambs, five Hamp- 

 shire Down and one Merino, all grades — three ewes and three wethers — 

 were divided into two lots of three animals each to compare the relative 

 financial effects of wide and narrow rations. The experiment with lot 1, 

 which had the more nitrogenous ration, continued from September 5 

 to February 4, one hundred and fifty-two days ; and that with lot 2, 

 which had the wider ration (containing less protein and more carbohy- 

 drates than that of lot 1), from September 5 to March 18, one hundred 

 and ninety-four days, the lower rate of increase in the weight of the 

 animals and the condition of the local markets causing the extension of 

 the test in the latter case. For ten days preceding the trial both lots 

 were fed rowen hay exclusively. Beginning September 16 both lots 

 received alike the coarse fodder consisting of rowen hay, silage, or 

 rowen and silage together, and in addition grain, consisting in the 

 case of lot 1, of a mixture of wheat bran and gluten meal in different 

 proportions and amounts in different periods, the nutritive ratio of the 

 rations varying from 1:4.5 to 1:5.5; and in the case of lot 2, during the 

 same one hundred and fifty-two days, of a mixture of corn meal, wheat 

 bran, and gluten meal, the nutritive ratio of the rations varying from 



