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of lime, and resembles closely the previous one, where no 

 special determination of carbonic acid has been recorded. 



Lime-Kiln Ashes. 



[I. Collected of R. T. Prentiss, Holyoke, Mass.] 

 [II. Collected of J. A. Sullivan, Northampton, Mass.] 



I. These ashes sold at 22 cents per bushel. 

 II. Sold at 18 cents per bushel at retail, and 12| cents 

 per bushel by the car-load. They consist in the main of a 

 mixture of carbonate and slacked lime. 



Wood Ashes. 



[I. Asbes sent on for examination from Northfield, Mass.] 



[II. "Western ashes (leached) sent on for examination from Hinghara, Mass., by 



Edmund Hersey, for the Hingham Agricultural and Horticultural Society.] 



