Food for 

 Plants 



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Analyses of Commercial Fertilizing Materials. 



Continued. 



Name of Substance. 



III. 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 (mollusks) 



Shells (crustacea) 



Shell lime (oyster shell) 



Soot 



Spent tan 



Spent sumach 



Sugar-house scum 



Turf 



7.40 

 1.25 

 6.00 

 8.54 

 1.00 

 13.20 

 10.61 

 9.27 



a 



So 



o 



4.04 



15.65 



2.30 



12.12 



20.50 



6.82 



2.29 



5.64 



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 



o 



2.20 

 0.40 



6.44 

 1.30 



0.10 

 0.40 

 23.20 

 0.86 

 0.70 



Phosphoric Acid. 



Avail- 

 able. 



5.02 



Insolu- 

 ble. 



6.23 



0.30 



19.50 

 5.54 

 14.00 

 30.80 

 50.20 

 19.29 



0.30 

 1.30 

 1.37 

 0.20 

 0.75 



0.30 

 0.10 

 6.20 



0.20 

 1.00 

 2.10 

 1.94 



1.25 



0.04 

 0.49 



0.22 

 0.20 



0.10 

 0.04 

 0.20 

 0.04 

 1.83 

 0.10 

 0.30 



