1886.] 



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Sample I. sold at $14.25 per ton, counting 45 pounds the 

 weight of a bushel, at 33 cents per bushel. Samples II. and 

 III. sold at 25 cents per bushel, of from 45 to 48 pounds 

 each. 



Ash of 8pent Tan Bark. 



[Sent on for examination from North Adams, Mass.] 



The article resembles leached wood ash, as might be ex- 

 pected from the previous treatment of the hemlock bark. 



Potash Salts. 



[Sent on by the Secretary of the»Dartmouth Farmers' Club.] 



[I. Potash Salts, a fused hard mass, of a claylsh-white color.] 



[II. Black or Blue Ash, a moist, lumpy mass, easily pulverized.] 



