HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MENHADEN. 



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The following analysis by Stockhardt* of tlie flesb and bones of the 

 whale may not be without interest in this connection : 



I. — Flesh of the whale. 



Ea^v, per 

 cent. 



Perfectly 

 dry (iu- 

 cuiliu g 

 fat), per 

 cent. 



Without fat 

 and entire- 

 ly dry, per 

 cent. 



Water 



Fat 



Plesh 



Mineral constituents (ash) . 

 ^Nitrogen 



44. 50 



22. 81 



32. 10 



l.ti4 



4.60 



4'!. 70 

 57. 44 



1.86 



acb 



96.80 

 3.20 

 14.60 



II. — Steamed bones of the ivhale. 

 Water , . 3. 84 per cent. 



Cartilaginous mass (glue) . 34. 60 



Fat 1.34 



Bone phosphate of lime. . 51. 66 



=(3.5 per cent, nitrogen.) 



={23.66 per cent, phosphoric 

 acid.) 



Carbonate of lime 8. 56 " 



Analysis of Jish fertilizers. 

 299. The following tables illustrate the composition of some of our 

 more common lish fertilizers. Those in Table A are from analyses re- 

 ported by the writer.t Those in Table B are rei)orted by Prof. S. W. 

 Johnson : | 



TABLE A. 



Kind of fertilizer. 



Dry ground fish : 



Ground iish, G. W. Miles 



Fish guano, G. W. Miles 



Charles Island guano, G. W. Miles. . 



Allyn's fertilizer 



Allyn's fertilizer 



Dry ground (ish, Qninnipiac Ferti- 

 lizer Company 



Dry ground fish, Qninnipiac Ferti- 

 lizer Company . . 



Dry ground fiah, Quinnipiao Ferti- 

 lizer Company 



Dry ground lisii, Quinnipiao Ferti- 

 lizer Company 



Acidulated lish, Quinnipiao Ferti- 

 lizer Company 



Dried fish scrap .- 



"Dry fish,'" Green iiroihers 



" Dried fi-sh " 



"Drj- fish" 



"Fish .scrap" 



'Dry tish" 



"Dry lish" 



iialf-dry fish scrap : 



Fi.sh scrap, "half dry " , 



Fish scrap, " hulf dry " 



Crude fish pumace : 



"FibU scrap" 



Per ct. 

 6.71 



6.35 

 7.33 



7. G8 



6. 63 

 8.94 



3.93 



'a 29 



*Per cent, soluble in water, 1.76 ; per cent, soluble in ammonium citrate, 2.47. 

 * Chemischo Ackersmauu XVI, 1870, 52, 



t Report of Connecticut Afjjriciiltural Experiment St.ition, 187G, p. G3. 

 i Report of Conuecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 1877, p. 41. 



