730 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



On the development and present status of the perchlorate question, H. G. 



SoDERBAi-M (A'. Lniidt. Akad. Ihnidl. Tidxkr., S9 {1900), No. 5-6, pp. SSS-S/,5)- 



Commercial fertilizers, E. H. Jenkins et al. ( Connecticut State Sta. Rpt. 1901, 

 pt. 1, pp. 94). — This includes a statement of fertilizer sales in Connecticut in 1901, 

 the text and an abstract of the State laws relating to fertilizers, a list of manufacturers 

 securing licenses under these laws, notes on the sampling and (collecting of fertilizers, 

 explanations regarding the analysis and the valuation of fertilizers, a review of the 

 fertilizer market for the year ended October 31, 1901, and tabulated analyses and 

 valuations of 432 samples of fertilizing materials, including nitrate of soda, dried 

 blood, cotton-seed meal, castor pomace, superphosphates, sulphate of potash, muriate 

 of potash, double sulphate of potash and magnesia, kainit, tobacco ashes, bone, tank- 

 age, dry ground fish, bone and wood ashes, cotton-hull ashes, wood ashes, limekiln 

 ashes, tobacco stems, lime refuse, soot, wool waste, carbonizing dust, garbage tank- 

 age, and muck. 



Commercial fertilizers {Kentucky Sta. Bid. 95, pp. 133-190). — The results of 

 analysis of 438 samples of fertilizers are reported and briefly discussed. "Of the 

 438 samples analyzed, 83, representing 71 brands and 30 firms, fell so far below the 

 guaranteed analyses in phosphoric acid, nitrogen, or potash, or any two, or all three 

 of these ingredients, that the deficiencies could not be accounted for by variations 

 in sampling or analysis. . . . The great majority of the manufacturers, however, 

 have furnished in most instances fertilizers fully up to the guarantee." 



Analyses of fertilizers, C. A. Goessmann (Massachusetts Sta. Bid. 77, pp. 30). — 

 Analyses of fertilizers collected during 1901 under the provisions of the State law 

 and of miscellaneous materials sent to the station for examination are reported. 

 The miscellaneous materials include wood ashes, cotton-hull ashes, walnut ashes, 

 pine-wood ashes, ashes from soft coal and sawdust, muriate of potash, nitrate of soda, 

 cotton-seed meal, tobacco stems, bone, tankage, ground fish, dissolved boneblack, 

 calcium carbonate, gas lime, muck, marl, river sediment, and samples of marsh and 

 ordinary soils. 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers, W. F. Hand et al. {Mississippi Sta. Bui. 

 68, pp. 3£). — "This bulletin contains the analyses of the principal brands of com- 

 mercial fertilizers that have been found on the Mississippi markets during the season 

 of 1900-1901.'.' 



Fertilizers {New Jersey Stas. Rpt. 1900, pp. 15-78). — This is mainly a reprint of 

 Bulletin 145 (E. S. R., 12, p. 840) with the addition of statistics of the fertilizer 

 trade in New Jersey during 1899 and preceding years, the market prices of fertilizers, 

 text of the fertilizer law, and lists of inspectors, and of manufacturers whose goods 

 were inspected in 1900. From data furnished by 92 out of 112 firms selling fertiliz- 

 ers in New Jersey in 1899 it is estimated that the total consumption of fertilizers in 

 the State was 61,727 tons, valued at $1,573,093. "Complete manures represent 70 

 per cent of the total number of tons sold in 1899 and 76 per cent of the total value 

 of all sales." The statistics reported show that there has been a decline in the price 

 of the actual plant food furnished in fertilizers since 1886. 



Analyses and valuations of fertilizers, L. A. Voorhees and J. P. Street 

 {Neiv Jersey Sta.s. Bid. 154, pp- 55). — This bulletin discusses the trade values of fer- 

 tilizing ingredients in 1901; the cost, valuation, purchase and guaranteed and actual 

 composition of fertilizers, home mixtures, and special fertilizers; and reports the 

 results of examination of 59 samples of standard unmixed fertilizing materials, 308 

 brands of complete fertilizers representing 79 manufacturers, 25 samples of ground 

 bone, and 37 of miscellaneous products. In addition there are reported the analyses 

 of 8 samples of home mixtures and 18 samples of mixtures especially compounded 

 by manufacturers to order. The materials examined included, in addition to the 

 mixed fertilizers, nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, dried blood and ammonite, 

 dried and ground fish, tankage, hair manure, superphosphates, muriate of potash, 



