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saltpeter waste, refuse from glue factory, fish rlnim. dry ground fish, 

 blood, boue and meat, ground bone, bones boih'd in potash, starch waste, 

 '•sludge" from Worcester sewage ])recipitating tanks, tankage, Florida 

 phosphate rock, dissolved boneblack, German phosphatic slag, hen 

 manure, jute waste, shelled corn, buckwlu-at hulls, seaweed, rer»iduum 

 from soft coal, vegetable ivory. Concentrated Flower Food. Flora Vita, 

 compound fertilizers, Paris green, Sulphatine, Death to Kose Bugs, Pro- 

 fessor De Grairs Bug Destroyer, tobacco liquid, and (m sami>les of well 

 water, and a compilation of analyses of agricultural chemicals and 

 refuse materials used for fertilizing jjurposes, feeding stutls, fruits, 

 sugar-producing ]dants, dairy i)roducts, etc. 



Commercial fertiUzerff (pp. 2L'8-L'.")8). — General remarks on commercial 

 fertilizers and their insjtection. the trade values cjf fertilizing ingredi- 

 ents for bSOO, the text of the Massachusetts fertilizer law, list of 

 licensed dealers, and analyses of 158 commercial fertilizers, including 

 bones, sulphate (»f ammonia, sulphat*' of potash, inuriate of ]»otash, 

 and nitrate of soda. Of tin* ir»s sami»les analyzed, a-i were below the 

 guaranty in one ingredient. !•• in t\v(Mngredients, and li in all three 

 ingredients; "»() were abo\«' the guaianty in one ingredient, .>(► in two 

 ingredients, and 4 in all three ingredients, "The delicicncy in r«'gard to 

 one or two essential constituents was iu the majority of cases commer- 

 cially <'ompensated by the excess of another one." 



Metkokology (pp. ;U."3-3H»), — Bri«'f notes on the weather and a sum- 

 mary of m«'teorological observations for each nnuith of IS'.Hi. 



Kepoht of Tin:.\sri;i:K*. V. K. Pakie (p. .UT), — This is tor the year 

 ending December .{1. IMMi. :iiiil lontains a summary of the property «»f 

 the siation. in addition to a stafcuient (»f receipts and expenditures. 



Massachusetts State Station, Bulletin No. 40, July. 1891 (pp, 16). 



]\rETEoi{OLOfTi('.vi. siMMAKY (i>. 1 ), — This is for tilt- months oi Miirrh 

 to .lune, IS'.U. inclusivt'. 



Some diseases of lettice and ctn mukks. .1, K. llrMi'iiuEV, B. 

 S. (pp, -, .">). — A brief announcement of observations on a sjiecies of 

 lii)tr}iti>i or Pnlifdrtis as the cause of lettuce rot, and <»n the powdery mil- 

 dew of the cucumber {OidiiiiH n-i/siphoiilfs, Fri«'s, var. ciicurbitdnim). 

 Details will be ]>u])lished in the Annual Ke]>ort of the station for 181U. 



I'EKTILIZEKS, ( ', A, GoEssMANN, Pit, D, (p}). 4-0). — Analyses (»f 16 

 samjiles of commercial fertilizers and ."> samples of bom-. ;niil the trade 

 values of fertilizing ingredients for 181H. 



Feeding experimems with steeks, C. A. Goess.ma.x.x, Ph. D. 

 (pp, 7-I(»). — "With a view to detciinining the cost of the food recjuired 

 for the production of beet under existing local conditions," an experi- 

 ment, the first of a series, was made during tin- winter of lSSO-00 with 

 two yearling and two L* year-old grade Shoi thorn steers. Two <lilV«'rent 

 ages were taken to obsei\ f the (lifi'erence in the cost of the gain a.s tho 



