HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MENHADEN. 



229 



The following analysis by Stockliardt* of tlic llesb and boiu-s of the 

 whale may not be without interest in this connection : 



T. — Fl€»h of the whah. 



II. — Steamed bones of the whale. 



Water 3. 84 per cent. 



Cartilaginous mass (glue). 34.60 " =(3.5 per cent, nitrogen.) 



Fat 1.34 " 



Bone phosphate of lime.. 51.60 " 



=(23.60 i»er cent, phosphoric 

 acid.) 



Carbonate of lime 8. 56 " 



Analysis of fish fertilizers. 

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

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

 ported by the writer.t Those in Table B are reported by Prof. S. W. 

 Johnson : | 



TABLE A. 



Kind of fertilizer. 



Dry (jround fish : 



Ground tish, G. W. Miles 



Fish guauo, G. W. Miles 



Charles Island Kuano, G. W^ Miles. . 



Allyn's fertilizer 



Allyn's fertilizer 



Dry ground fish, Quinnipiac Ferti- 

 lizer Company 



Dry ground fish, Quinnipiac Ferti- 

 lizer Company 



Dry ground fiah, Quinnipiac Ferti- 

 lizer Company 



Dry ground fish, Quinnipiac Ferti- 

 lizer Company 



Acidulated tisli, Quinnipiac Ferti- 

 lizer Company 



Dried fixh scrap : 



'^Dry fish," Green Brothers 



" Dried f^.sh"... 



"Dry tish"' 



" Fish scr.ip " 



" Dry fish " 



"Dry fish" 



Ilalf-dry fish scrap : 



Fish scrap, "half dry " 



Fish scrap, "half dry" 



Crude fish pomace : 



"Fish scrap" 



10 



28 

 80 

 24 

 185 



100 



HO 



17-2 



203 



179 

 182 

 189 

 190 

 196 

 199 



103 

 131 



197 



% 



Per ct. 



18.74 



21.96 



8.63 



6.34 

 14.64 

 10.85 

 13.45 



8.22 

 36. 53 



11.04 

 9.37 



11.00 

 7.74 



7.59 



40.95 

 25.10 



56.83 



Per ct. 

 61. 82 

 50.99 

 71.79 



71.31 



68.40 

 63.97 



39.89 

 64.01 



43.06 

 56. 17 



Per ct. 

 19.44 

 27.05 

 19.41 

 16.37 

 22. 35 



22. 23 



20.75 



22. 58 



20.41 



23.58 



24.95 

 19.92 

 20.17 



15.99 

 18.73 



P^ 



Per ct. 

 7.65 

 8.66 

 7.74 

 6.17 

 7.90 



6.67 



7.21 



7.55 



8.11 



*7. 09 



10.51 

 7,10 

 7.12 



6.23 

 7.49 



Per ct. 

 8.06 

 6.07 



8.84 

 8.80 



7.88 



7.50 



7.38 



7.96 



8.25 



4.11 



8.60 

 8.13 

 7.46 

 7.10 

 7.79 

 7.65 



5.33 

 5.49 



3.63 





Per ct. 

 9.78 

 7.36 

 10. 73 

 10.68 

 9.56 



9.11 



8.97 

 9 66 



4.99 



10.44 

 9.86 

 9. 05 

 8.61 

 9.46 

 9.28 



6.47 

 6.66 



Per ct. 

 6.71 



6. 35 

 7.33 



.68 



8.94 



3.93 



'§."29 



11.99 



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



* Ciiemische Ackersmann XVI, 1870, 52. 



t Report of Couiiecticut Agricultural Experiment Sration, 1876, p. 63. 



t Report of Couuecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 1877, p. 41. 



