Ground Bone and Tankage, -('oiu-liidcd. 

 HiMiul.s Snl).slinili;illv Mcoliiii' Tlioir (iiuiruntor.s. — Concluded. 



' i'wo anal.\!<e(> made. 



' The .>saini>le wa.-! seriously out of balanoe. It proved to be a 9 per cent ammonia and 20 per eent bono 

 plu>sphate of lime tankajje, testing 8.66 per cent nitrogen and 7.02 per cent phosphoric acid. There was 

 no eommereial shortaRe. 



Wood Ashes. 



NoTK. — Variation in pereentaRe composition in the ten analyses made: moisture, 6.04 to 23.35; phos- 

 phoric acid, 1.S3 to 2.17: w.iter soluble potash, 2.76 to 6.90; total potash, 3.53 to 8.09, with an average 

 of 6.22 for those sold on unit basis and 4 26 for those sold on the ton basis. .VveraKe wood ashes contain 

 about ;?1 per cent of calcium oxide and :< per cent of maKnesivini oxide, both present larsely as carbonates. 

 l'"ron\ the wide variations in compo.-iilion wliich exist in individual car shipments of tliis product, it is 

 obvious that jishes should always oc bought on a statement of Kviarantee of potaslt, lime and phosphoric 

 acid, and only after a comparison has been made as to the cost of similar amounts of these plant food 

 constituents from other reliable si>\irees. 



