SOILS FERTILIZERS. 525 



and common forms of adulteration of these products, including mixture with 

 tannery refuse and with refuse solutions obtained in the manufacture of 

 ammonia, the latter being particularly injurious on account of their high con- 

 tent of sulphocyanids. 



Commercial fertilizers and chemicals, T. G. Hudson, J. M. McCandless, 

 ET AL. {Bui. Ga. Dtpt. Ayr., 1007. Xo. i'l, up. I!)(i). — This is the quarterly report 

 on inspection of fertilizers in Georgia up to August 1, 1907, containing also 

 information regarding the nature and use of fertilizers, fertilizer legislation, 

 pure foods, and food standards and regulations. 



Commercial fertilizers, F. D. Coburn {Quart. Kpt. Kans. Bd. Agr., 26 

 {1!)()7). Xo. lO.i. pp. i.-^(;-/^9).— This is a final report under the fertilizer law of 

 lOOo, and includes a financial statement and the text of the new fertilizer law 

 (see below), which became elfective September oO, ISIOT, and which places the 

 inspection in charge of the director of the agricultural experiment station, 

 taking it out of the hands of the secretary of the State board of agriculture. 



Kansas law regulating- the sale of commercial fertilizers, C. W. Burkett 

 and J. T. Willard {Kansai^ Sta. BuL t'lS, pp. 9). — The text of the law which 

 went into effect Septemlier 3(», I'.HH, is given, with explanatory notes. 



The law exempts from inspection raw materials in the hands of manufac- 

 turers, salt, lime, gypsum, or the dung of domestic animals, when sold as such, 

 and each unmixed with anything else. It requires a guaranty of minimum 

 percentage of the following constituents : Phosphorus in phosphates soluble in 

 water, phosphorus in reverted phosphates, i)hosphorus in insoluble phosphates, 

 total phosphorus, potassium in compounds soluble in water, nitrogen in nitrates, 

 nitrogen in ammonium salts, and total nitrogen, together with the maximum 

 percentage of chlorin in conqtounds soluble in water. It also re(iuires that the 

 fertilizer shall contain no horn, hoof, hair, feathers, or similarly inert nitrog- 

 enous matter. "Any manufacturer desiring to do so may waive the privilege 

 of stating the percentage of nitrogen in nitrates and nitrogen in ammonium 

 salts. 



" The manufacturer or seller shall also state the sources of the constituents 

 of the brand of fertilizer offered for registration, which statement and the in- 

 formation contained therein shall be recorded for reference, but shall not be 

 disclosed by the said director unless the materials used are such as are liable 

 to lower the standard of the fertilizer or give it deleterious properties." 



The methods of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists are to be 

 used in the analysis of the fertilizers. A tax of 25 cts. per ton is charged, and 

 tags must be attached to each 200 lbs. or fraction thereof. The enforcement 

 of the law is placed in the hands of the director of the agricultural experiment 

 station. Violations of the law are punishable by a fine of " not less than $50 

 nor more than .$20(» and costs for the first offense, and not less than $100 nor 

 more than $.500 and costs for each subsequent offense; provided, that any 

 seller chall be exempt from the penalty for sale of fertilizers that are below 

 the guaranteed standard if he has a written guaranty from the manufacturer 

 or seller of the fertilizer that said fertilizer is registered and of the guaranteed 

 conqtosition, if said manufacturer or seller is a resident of the State of Kansas." 



The experiment station is i-equired to publish at least annually a bulletin 

 giving the results of inspection. 



Inspection and analyses of cotton-seed meal on sale in Mississippi, W. F. 

 Hand et al. {Mixni.'^sippi .S7fl. Bill. lO'i, pp. 25). — This bulletin reports analyses 

 of 242 samples of cotton-seed meal and discusses the fertilizing value of this 

 material and the (piality of th(» iiroduet on the market in Mississipi)i. The hnv 

 of that State requires that cotton-seed meal shall be guaranteed, branded, and 



