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1900 (with guaranteed composition), and analyses and valuations of 181 samples of 

 fertilizers examined by State chemist during the spring of 1900. 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers, J. HajMILTON and W. Freak {Pennsylvania 

 Dept. Agr. Bui. 54, pp- 163). — This includes the text of the State fertilizer law, notes 

 on valuations, a list of manufacturers securing licenses for the sale of fertilizers in 

 Pennsylvania in 1899, and tabulated analyses and valuations of 716 samples of fertili- 

 zers examined during the year 1899. 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers, H. J. Wheeler and B. L. Hartwell 

 (Rhode Island Sta. Bui. 60, pp. 39-48). — This is the third of the bulletins of this 

 station dealing with the inspection of fertilizers in Rhode Island during 1899. It 

 includes analyses and valuations of 47 samples of mixed fertilizers and 9 samples of 

 wood ashes. The comparative quality of the complete fertilizers sold in the State 

 from 1891 to 1896 and in 1899 was as follows: 



(Jompnrative quality of fertilizers sold in Rhode Island. 



Report of fertilizer department, J. P. Smith {South Carolina Sta. Rpt. 1899, 

 pp. 32-34). — A brief account is given of the work of sampling and inspecting fertilizers 

 during the year ended December 31, 1899. According to the reports of the official 

 inspectors, the amount of fertilizers sold in the State during 1899 was 241,299 tons as 

 compared with 257,393 tons sold in 1898. Analyses of the 336 samples of fertilizers 

 examined during the year have been published in bulletins of the station (E. S. R., 

 11, pp. 438, 831). 



Report of chemist, M. B. Hardin {South Carolina Sta. Rpt. 1899, jjp. 9-16). — 

 This is a Itrief statement of the work of this department of the station during the year 

 ended November 30, 1899. It includes notes on farmers' institutes, fertilizer insjDec- 

 tion, examination of water, and miscellaneous analytical work. 



"Of the 336 samples [of fertilizers] analyzed this year only 6 were deficient under 

 the law, which requires that the commercial value based upon analysis shall not fall 

 3 per cent below the commercial value based upon guaranty. Besides these 6 

 deficients, however, there were 56 samples, including 1 cotton-seed meal, which fell 

 below guaranty in one or more constituents." 



Analyses of licensed commercial fertilizers, 1899, F. W. Woll and A.Vivian 

 ( Winrnnsin^ Sta. Rpt. 1899, pp. 263-266, 316, 317). — A l)rief account of fertilizer inspec- 

 tion in Wisconsin during 1899, analyses of 5 fertilizers being reported. The text of 

 the fertilizer law is given. 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers obtainable in New South Wales, E. 11. 

 GuRNEY and T. II. Labv {Ayr. Gaz. New Simih Wales, 11 {1900), No. 4, pp. 290-294).— 

 This article discusses the valuations of fertilizers in New South Wales and gives 

 analyses and valuations of 110 samples of fertilizing materials, including various 

 mixed fertilizers, and deposit from wool-scouring tanks, wool waste, "skutch" from 

 limed pelts, decomposed hair and lime, lanyard refuse, sheep manure, bat guano, 

 filter-press muck from cane mills, megass, megass ash, bloodwood ash, ironbark, 

 blackbutt ash, red gum ash, spotted gum ash, boxwood ash, seawood ash, ash oi 

 kerosene shale, cave deposit, gypsum, flue deposit from furnaces, niglit soil, fowl 

 manure, ash of vine cuttings, and seaweed. 



Recent researches on nitrification, R. Warington {Chem. News, 81 {1900), 

 No. 2105, p. 151). — This is an abstract of a lecture reviewing recent work on this 

 subject, especially that of Winogradsky and Omeliansky. 



