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Buffalo Fertilizer Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 



Celery and Potato Special, 

 High Grade Manure, 

 New I'Jngland Special. 



E. D. Chittenden Co., Bridgeport, 

 Conn. 



Grass and Grain, 

 Grain and Vegetables, 

 Potato and Grain. 



Coe-Mortimer Co., New York City. 



New Englander Corn and Grain, 

 Complete Manure with 10% Potash, 

 Special Grass Top Dressing, 

 Red Brand Excelsior Guano, 

 Excelsior Potato, 

 Standard Potato Fertilizer, 

 XXV Ammoniated Bone Superphos- 

 phate. 



Mapes' Formula and Peruvian Guano 

 Co., New York City. 



Vegetable Manure, 

 Cauliflower and Cabbage, 

 Complete Manure for Heavj^ Soils, 



Complete Manure, 10% Potash, 



Average Soil Complete Manure, 



Top Dresser Improved Half Strength, 



Tobacco Ash Constituents, 



Lawn Top Dressing, 



C'orn Manure, 



General Use, 



Cereal Brand, 



Grass and Grain Spring Top Dressing, 



Complete Manure, A Brand, 



Tobacco Starter, 



Potato Manure, 



Fruit and Vine, 



Economical Potato Manure, 



Grain Manure, 



Olds & Whipple, Hartford, Conn. 

 Fish and Potash. 



Ross Bros. Co., Worcester, Mass. 



Lawn and Garden Fertilizer. 



Swift's Lowell Fertilizer Co., Boston, 

 Mass. 



Lawn Dressing, 

 Sterling Phosphate. 



The following facts were brought out through correspondence 

 with the above companies: 



The Armour Fertilizer Works contend that all of their materials 

 are purchased on a certain percentage guarantee of available nitro- 

 gen. Further, that "while the availability of such materials as 

 acidulated garbage tankage may give low results by the alkaline 

 permanganate method, yet no one with a practical knowledge of 

 the fertilizer business will seriously contend that acidulated gar- 

 bage tankage should be excluded from commercial fertilizers. The 

 demand for ammoniates is too heavy to permit of such a ruling." 

 A later communication states that, so far as they are able to tell, 

 the ammonia in their goods was derived from nitrate of soda, fish 

 tankage, packing-house tankage and acidulated base goods. 



The Atlantic Fertilizer Company state that the management 

 has undergone an entire change since the shipping season last spring 

 and they have had difficulty in getting any definite information re- 

 garding operations early in the season. They admit that some low 

 grade organic ammoniates were used. The company state that 

 they now have a chemist who will test all materials received and 

 goods shipped and that whatever goods are shipped into Massachu- 

 setts during the coming season will meet the requirements. 



The Baltimore Pulverizing Company state that most of their 

 nitrogen is supplied by sulfate of ammonia, a small amount by 



