246 EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



COMPILATIONS. 



Inteoduction. 



BY J. B. LINDSEY. 



A compilation of the chemical composition of fodder articles, 

 agricultural chemicals and manurial residues was first made by 

 Prof. C. A. Goessmann and his assistants in 1887, and published 

 in the fifth report of the Massachusetts State Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, pages 181-227. This compilation included 

 all analyses made by Goessmann and his co-workers since 18G8. 

 It was later enlarged to include compilations of the analyses 

 made at this station of dairy products, fruits, garden cro})s and 

 insecticides. The parties largely responsible for the details of 

 the several compilations were W. H. Beal, C. S. Crocker, J. I>. 

 Lindsey, H. D. Haskins, E. B. Holland and P. II. Smith. In 

 1896 the classification of fodder articles was considerably modi- 

 fied and improved ; the present compilation of agricultural 

 chemicals and manurial residues has undergone a similar re- 

 arrangement, and the available analyses have been added to the 

 compilation of fruits and garden crops. Naturally a few mate- 

 rials, being no longer of interest, have been omitted. 



The tables of compilations are as follows: — 



Table I. Composition and Digestibility of Fodder Articles, pp. 247- 



265. 

 Table II. Fertilizer Ingredients of Fodder Articles, pp. 266-271. 

 Table III. Analyses of Dairy Products, p. 272. 

 Table IV. Coefficients of DigestibiHty of American Fodder Articles, 



pp. 273-303. 

 Table V. Analyses of Agricultural Chemicals, etc., pp. 304-323. 

 Table VI. Analyses of Fruit and Garden Crops, pp. 324-338. 



