HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MENHADEN. 



229 



The following analysis by Stockbardt* of the flesh and bones of the 

 whale may not be without interest in this connection : 



I. — Flesh of the whale. 



Water 



Fat 



Flesh 



Mineral constituents (ash) . 

 Nitrogen 



Havr, per 

 cent. 



44. 50 

 22. 81 

 3j. 10 



1. (:4 

 4.&G 



Perfectly 

 dry (ill- 

 cud i XI g 

 fat), per 

 cent. 



4(1.70 

 57.44 



1.86 



8.C8 



Without fat 

 andeutirc- 

 ly dry, per 

 cent. 



96. eo 



3. '20 

 14.60 



II. — Steamed lones of the whale. 



Water 3. 84 per cent. 



Cartilaginous mass (glue). 34. GO " ={3.5 per cent, nitrogen.) 



Fat 1.34 <' 



Bone phosphate of lime.. 51.60 " =(23.GG i>er cent, phosphoric 



' acid.) 



Carbonate of lime 8. 56 " 



Analysis of Jish fertilisers. 

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

 more common tish 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 qroitnd fish : 



Ground iish, G. \V. Miles 



Fish guaui), G. W. Miles 



Charles Island guano, G. W. Miles. . 



AUyn's fertilizer 



AUyu's fertilizer 



Dry ground Iish, Quinuipiac Ferti- 

 lizer Company 



Dry ground tish, t^Juinnipiac Ferti- 

 lizer Company 



Dry ground tish, Quinnipiae Ferti- 

 lizer Company 



Dry gn.unil fish, Quinnipiae Ferti- 

 lizer Company 



Acidulated tish, Quinnipiae Forti- 



, lizer Company 



Dried fish scrax): 



"Dry Iish,'' Green Brothers 



" Dried fish " 



" Dry fish " 



" Fish scrap " 



"Dry fish" 



"Dry fish" 



Half -dry fish scrap : 



Fish scrap, ' • half dry " 



Fish scrap, "half dry" , 



Crude fish •pomace : 



" Fish scrap " 



Per ct. 

 6.71 



6.35 

 7.33 



6.63 



8.94 



3.93 



'8.'29 



11.99 



* Per cent, s jlublo in water, 1.76 ; ijer cent, soluble in ammonium citrate, 2.47. 



* Chemiscbe Ackersmauu XVI, 1870, 52. 



+ Report of Counecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 187G, p. 63. 



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



