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CONTROL SERIES No. 90 



CHEMICALS AND RAW PRODUCTS 



Summary of Results of the Inspection of Fertilizer Simples and Raw Products 



i 



a Average percentage of chlorine, .37%. 



b Average percentage of chlorine, .36%. 



c Average percentage of chlorine, .49%. 



d Percentage of chlorine, .16%. 



e Total potash. 



/ Not counting value of phosphoric acid or potash. 



(I Magnesium oxide, 13.26%; chlorine, 1.08%. 



h Calcium oxide, 13.87%; magnesium oxide, 5.33%; moisture, 5.12%; insoluble matter, 17.63%. 



i Calcium oxide, 29.36 %j; magnesium oxide, 3.56%; moisture, 24.55%; insoluble matter, 8.00%. 



j Chlorine, .44 %. 



k Average tankage liner than 1/50 inch, 43.57%; coarser than 1/50 inch, 56.43%. 



I Average bone finer than 1/50 inch, 70.12%; coarser than 1/50 inch, 29.88%. 



TO Average organic matter: sheep manure, 43.16%; sheep and goat manure, 33.80%; cattle manure 

 6"4.95%; poultry manure, 65.80%; poultry manure and peat, 51.13%. 



Noter The average pound cost of nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash from all of the pulverized 

 natural manures taken collectively would be as follows: nitrogen, 70 cents; phosphoric acid, 12 cents; 

 potash, 11 cents. 



