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all the advantages expected, there can be no doubt about the 

 correctness of the statement, that the best financial success 

 on the part of the farmer can only be secured by the gradual 

 adoption of that system of manuring the farms. 



Our leading dealers in fertilizers begin to realize the late 

 tendency in their trade, and are preparing to meet the call. 

 There is every reason to assume that the consumption of 

 chemical manurial matter will increase in the same propor- 

 tion as the principles of a rational and economical system of 

 manuring become better understood. 



The results of an examination and a discussion of all ferti- 

 lizers sold under a special license are reported according to 

 our State laws, by the inspector, to the State Board of 

 Agriculture, and will be found in the report of the Secretary 

 of the Board for 1884. 



Ammonium Sulphate. 



[I. Collected of D. A. Horton, Northampton, Mass. Guaranteed 25 per cent. 

 of ammonia.] 



pi. Sent on for examination by M. W. Jefts, for the Ashby Farmers' Club, 



Ashby, Mass.] 



The cost of this article has varied widely at times ; the 

 valuation is based on our annual rate, 22 cents per pound of 

 nitrogen in ammonia salts. 



Chili Saltpetre. 



[Collected at Amherst, Mass.] 



Moisture at 100 C.,° 1.98 



Nitrogen (in nitric acid), 14.44 



Valuation per 2,000 lbs., $>1 98 



