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Report of analyses of samples of fertilizers collected by the (New York) 

 commissioner of agriculture during 1905 i \ < /< York State sin. Bui. 272, /'/'. 

 /'/./ ytO). — This bulletin gives in tabular form without discussion <>r any kind 



the analyses of samples of fertilizers « ■< »l l< ■< • t < •< i by the c lissioner <>r agri 



culture during 1905 and transmitted by him for analysis to the director of the 

 New fork State Station. 



Fertilizer analyses, fall season, 1904, to spring season, 1905, \\. YV. 

 Kilgobe iliiil. X. C. lid. I'//.. 26 (1905), No. 7. /;//. 77). The Dames and guar 

 an teed composition of fertilizers registered for 1905, and analyses and valua 

 tions of 'iT'.i samples of commercial fertilizers and i<».s samples of cotton-seed 

 meal examined during the fall of 1904 and spring of 1905, with explanations 

 regarding terms used in fertilizer analyses, freighl rates, valuation, etc. 



Commercial fertilizers, \Y. W. .Mii.i.ik and N. W. Lord (Ann. Rpt. Ohio Bd. 

 Agr., ■'>:> (1904), /'/'• ■'■''" 817).— This is a report of analyses of commercial fer- 

 tilizer: made by the State chemisl and of <-m-ii!i<"ii<'s Bled by manufacturers <>r 

 genera] agents during the year 1904, with the text of the State fertilizer law. 



Miscellaneous analyses. I'.. L. Habtwell, .1. W. Kellogg, and M. Steel 

 (Rhode Island Sta. Rpt. 1905, i>i>. 223 226). — Analyses (in some cast's partial) 

 .ire reported of "hydrated" lime, muck (air dried), soot from soft coal, street 

 sweepings, ashes of hospital refuse, wood ashes, coal ashes, sawdust ashes from 

 machine shop, black hone, guano, acid phosphate (dissolved phosphate rock), 

 floats (undissolved phosphate rock), finely ground bone, dissolved hone, star 

 tish i ai; dried), dried blood, nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, muriate of 

 potash, high-grade muriate of potash, high-grade sulphate of potash, potassium 

 carbonate, sodium chlorid (common salt), sodium carbonate, Rhode Island corn 

 bran, an,, cotton-seed meal. 



Night soil, A. Gbatj {Jour. Agr. Prat., n. ser., In (1905), No. ■'><>. i>i>. !■',',, 

 7.7.7i. This article discusses briefly the preparation, variation in composition, 

 and use of this material. 



The production of manure, green manuring, and the purchase of com- 

 mercial ertilizers, F. Aebeboe (Fiihling's Landw. Ztg., ">) (1905), No. in. />i>. 

 '.'.;.; 639) A general discussion of this subject. 



Significance of ashes as fertilizer, I >. X. PaiANISHNiKOV (Vyestnik Russ. 

 Selsk. Kim.:.. 1904, N "• H* " f,s - '" Zhur. Opuitn. Agron. (Russ. -lour. Expt. 

 Landw.), S (1905), No. 1, p. 50). — Ashes are usually valued mainly as a potash 

 fertilizer, but, according to the author's experiments on sandy soils, it has been 

 demonstrated that ashes not only appear as m rich potash fertilizer, but their 

 phosphoric acid, even that insoluble in water, possesses a high degree of assimi- 

 lahility (higher than the phosphoric acid of hones and but slightly inferior to 

 superphosphate I. The application of too large amounts of ashes, however. 

 leads to the formation of a crust and an alkaline reaction in the soil which i> 

 not desirable. — p. fireman. 



Transformations of sodium nitrate in the soil of sugar-beet plantations, 

 .1. Stoki.asa (Ztschr. Zuckerindus. Bohmen, SO (1905), />i>. I s : abs. in -lour. 

 Nor. Chem. Indus., r, ( 1905), No. ..'/. pp. ins. tll9).— This article attempts to 



explain the fact that when sodium nitrate is applied to sugar I is very little 



<>f the nitrogen is washed out of the soil in normal seasons, but remains avail- 

 able in the humus of the surface soil. This is ascribed partly to assimilation 

 by the beets and partly to the fixation of the nitrogen in organic forms as a 

 result of biological processes, this organic nitrogen becoming available as it is 

 required by the plants. 



Chilean nitrate production and trade, R. E. Mansfield (Mo. Consular Rpts. 

 [V, 0.], t905, -V". 297, pp. 129, 130). — The statistics of this industry for 1904 

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