Food for 

 Plants 



182 



Analyses of Commercial Fertilizing Materials. 



Continued. 



Name of Substance. 



///. Nitrogenous Manures. 

 Continued. 



Malt sprouts 



Nitrate of Soda 



Nitre-cake 



Oleomargarine refuse 



Sulphate of ammonia 



Tankage 



Tobacco stems 



Wool waste 



IV. Miscellaneous Materials. 



Ashes (anthracite coal) 



Ashes (bituminous coal) 



Ashes (corn-cob) 



Ashes (lime-kiln) 



Ashes (peat and bog) 



Gas lime 



Marls (Maryland) 



Marls (Massachusetts) 



Marls (North Carolina). ... 



Marls (Virginia) 



Muck (fresh) 



Muck (air-dry) 



Mud (fresh water) 



Mud (from sea-meadows). . . 



Peat. 



Pine straw (dead leaves or pine 



needles) 



Shells (moUusks) 



Shells (crustacea) 



Shell lime (oyster shell) 



Soot 



Spent tan 



Spent sumach 



Sugar-house scum 



Turf 



o 

 *4 



7.40 

 1.25 

 6.00 

 8.54 

 1 .00 

 13.20 

 10.61 

 9.27 



15-45 

 5.20 



4.40 



1-73 

 18.18 



1.50 



15.98 



76.20 



21 .40 



40.37 



53-50 

 61.50 



7.80 



19.50 



5-54 

 14.00 

 30.80 

 50.20 

 19.29 



c 



lU 



bJO 

 O 



4.04 



15-75 

 2.30 



12. 12 



20.50 

 6.82 

 2.29 

 5.64 



0.30 



0.30 

 1.30 



^■37 

 0.20 



0-75 



0.30 

 o. 10 

 6.20 



0.20 

 1 .00 

 2. 10 



1.94 



o 



Cm 



20 



40 



44 

 30 



O. 10 



0.40 



23.20 



0.86 



0.70 



1 .2<; 



0.04 

 0.49 



0.22 

 0.20 



o. 10 

 0.04 

 0.20 

 0.04 



1-83 



O. 10 



0.30 



Phosphoric Acid. 



Avail- 

 able. 



02 



Insolu- 

 ble. 



23 



Total. 



Pure Dry (N H^ ), S O4 has 21.21 N— 25.76 N H, 

 Pure Dry Na N O3 has 16.47 N — 20.00 N H,. 



I/O 



88 



25 



60 



29 



II 



o 

 o 



o. 10 



0.40 



1. 18 



0.50 



0^38 



1.05 



0.56 

 0.09 



0.26 

 o. 10 



0.20 

 0.03 

 2.30 

 0.20 



0.04 

 O. 10 



