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5. Analyses, etc. — Continued. 

 Cotton-seed-hull Ashes. 



[I., sent on from Sunderland, Mass.; II. and III., sent on from North Hadley, 



Sample II. and in particular Sample III. are of an excep- 

 tional inferior quality. Cotton-seed-hull ashes and cotton- 

 seed meal sold for manurial purposes ought to be bought on a 

 guaranteed composition. Both articles are liable to a serious 

 fluctuation in composition. All articles sold for manurial 

 purposes, at ten dollars or more per ton, are subject to out- 

 laws for the regulation of the trade in commercial fertilizers. 



Cotton-hull Ashes. 



[I, sent on from North Hadley, Mass.; II., sent on from Feeding Ilills, Mass.; 

 Ill , sent on from Sunderland, Ma?s *] 



* Cotton-hull and wood ashes mixed. 



