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S. Winter Co., Brockton, Mass. J. M. Woodard, Greenfield, Mass. 



Pure Ground Bone. Unground Tankage. 



A. H. Wood & Co., Framingham, Mass. Worcester Rendering Co., Auburn, 

 Wood's B. B. Fertilizer, Mass. 



Wood's S. P. Fertilizer, Ground Tankage. 

 Wood's 777 Fertilizer. 



A strenuous effort has been made to procure 

 Fertilizers a representative sainple of every brand of fer- 



Collected. tilizer and lime which has been registered in 



Massachusetts, and with few exceptions the 

 effort has been successful. It has been possible with larger means 

 derived from our analysis fees to visit more towns and call upon 

 more agents. The sampling has been done by our regular inspec- 

 tor, Mr. James T. Howard, assisted by Mr. R. C. Tate and Mr. 

 G. W. Simmons. During the early part of April, arrangements 

 were made, upon request, to sample carloads of cottonseed meal, 

 wood ashes, fertilizers and chemicals, these earlier shipments be- 

 ing materials which were purchased for private use by some of 

 the larger consumers. Although this practice has made it neces- 

 sary to make a much larger number of analyses than formerly, yet 

 it has some good features as it insures the inspection of a larger 

 tonnage than would otherwise be possible, besides furnishing the 

 large consumer an analysis of his particular shipment. Large 

 . shipments of many private formulas have been sampled upon re- 

 quest. It is believed that an analysis of an officially taken sample 

 of these materials is of more value and fairer to all parties con- 

 cerned than an analysis of a sample drawn by the consumer with- 

 out the aid of proper sampling instruments. As much care is 

 taken in sampling private formulas, cottonseed meal or even 

 material in bulk, such as wood ashes, as in sampling the average 

 registered complete fertilizer. 



The inspectors have, during the year, sampled about 5600 tons 

 of fertiHzer of all kinds and in doing this have drawn from over 

 15,000 bags. The inspectors have visited 138 towns during the 

 season, called tipon 329 different agents and drawn 1180 samples 

 representing 527 distinct brands; this is 117 more samples, rep- 

 resenting 45 more brands, than were taken during the previous 

 year. 



Fertilizers Seven hundred and two analyses have been 



Analyzed. made during the year's inspection; they may 



be grouped as follows: 

 Complete Fertilizers . . . . 431 



Fertilizers furnishing phosphoric acid and pot- 

 ash, such as ashes . . . . 16 



