102 AGRICULTUKAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



The above material comes from parties engaged in the 

 manufacture of split peas. It is evidently a mixture of 

 ground peas with a liberal admixture of ground skins of 

 peas. The article is offered in Springfield at twenty dollars 

 per ton. The well-known highly nutritious quality of the 

 peas renders a trial advisable. 



Analysis of Pea Meal, with Reference to its Fertilizing Constituents. 



VcT cent 



Moisture at 100° C 8.85 



Ferric oxide, 0.03 



Phosphoric acid (6 cents per pound), 0.82 



Magnesium oxide, 0.30 



Calcium oxide, 0.30 



Potassium oxide (4 J cents jjcr pound), 0.99 



Sodium oxide, 0.62 



Niti-ogen (17 cents per poimd), 3.08 



Insoluble matter, 0.12 



Valuation per 2,000 pounds, $12 31 



GLUTEN :MEAL (CmcAGO). 

 [Bought at Springfield, Mass.] 



