220 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



and character of the deposits in the United States, with a more detailed account 

 of the rise and decline of the Syracuse salt industry and the borings made to 

 discover the source of the Onondaga brines. 



Fertilization, R. J. Redding and H. N. Starnes {Georgia Sta. Bui. 72, pp. 

 121-1 J/.l). — " The purpose of this little bulletin is to furnish a handy manual for 

 the use of farmers concerning the methods of culture of the leading farm, 

 orchard, and garden crops of the South, and the formulation of fertilizers for 

 the same. . . . The suggestions and formulas are largely based on carefully 

 conducted experiments in the field, orchard, and garden, some of them many 

 times repeated, on the Georgia Experiment Station farm. They are here com- 

 piled, with amenduients, from previous bulletins that have appeared from time 

 to time during the last 15 years." 



Analyses of fertilizers, C. A. Goessmann (Massachusetts 8ta. Bui. Ill, 

 pp. 28). — This bulletin gives market valuer of fertilizing ingredients and reports 

 analyses of licensed fertilizers collected in the general market and miscellaneous 

 fertilizing materials sent to the station for examination, including wood ashes, 

 lime ashes, prepared lime, oyster-shell lime, nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, 

 nitrate of potash, saltpeter waste, dried blood, linseed meal, cotton-seed meal, 

 high-grade sulphate of potash, potash magnesia sulphate, carbonate of pottish and 

 magnesia, dissolved boneblack, acid phosphate, burned l)one, phosphatic slag, 

 dissolved bone, ground bone, fine-ground bone and tankage, tankage, dry ground 

 fish, bone waste, horn waste, beef scrap, sheep manure, cotton waste, sludge 

 from filter beds, manure and lime, leather refuse, Chincha Peruvian guano, 

 JLiobos Peruvian guano, compound fertilizers, and soils. 



Compilation of analyses of agricultural chemicals, refuse salts, ashes, 

 lime compounds, refuse substances, guanos, phosphates, and animal excre- 

 ments, II. I). IIaskixs (Mas.sacJnisetts Sta. Riti. 19113, pp. 1.55-1S3). — This is 

 a compilation of analyses made at the Massachusetts Agricultural College and 

 Experiment Stations, 1808 to 1905, inclusive. It does not include analyses Of 

 licensed fertilizers. 



Report on official insiDection of commercial fertilizers and agricultural 

 chemicals during the season of 1905, C. A. Goessmann (Massachusetts Sta. 

 Rpt. 1905, pp. 50-60). — The results of examinations of 511 samples representing 

 313 brands are summarized. Tables show the average composition of the differ- 

 ent classes of all fertilizer analyses, and the maximum, minimum, and average 

 composition of special crop fertilizers. A schedule of trade values of fertilizing 

 constituents and a list of licensed manufacturers and dealers are given. 



Report on general work in the chemical laboratory, C. A. Goessmann 

 (Massachusetts Sta. Rpt. 1905, pp. 61-6 '/). — Brief notes are given on the exami- 

 nation of wood ashes and lime ashes. 



Fertilizer analyses, fall season, 1905, to spring season, 1906, P>. W. Kii.- 

 GORE (Bul. A. V. Bd. Ayr., 27 (1906), .Vo. 7, pp. S3). — The names and guaranteed 

 composition of fertilizei's registered for 1906, and analyses and valuations of 

 750 samples of commercial fertilizers and 76 samples of cotton-seed meal ex- 

 amined during the fall of 1905 and spring of 1900, with explanations regarding 

 terms used in fertilizer analyses, fi'oight rates, valuation, etc. 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers (South VuroJina Sta. Bul. 119, pp. 37). — 

 This bulletin contains the analyses of 055 samples of fertilizers collected during 

 the season of 1905-0. " These analyses were published in 20 weekly bulletins 

 issued and distributed during the months of February, March, Ain'il. and May." 



Inspection of commercial fei'tilizers, 1905, F. W. Woix and G. A. Olson 

 (Wisconsin Sta. Rpt. 1905, pp. 377. .978). — Analyses of 15 samples of fertilizers 

 licensed for sale in the State during the year are reported. 



