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Food kok Plants. 



Analyses of Commercial Fertilizing Materials. Continued. 



Name of Substance 



IV. Miscellaneous Makrials — Cont'd 



Ashes (peat and bog) 



Gas lime 



Marls (Maryland) 



Marls (Massachusetts) 



Marls (North Carohna) 



Marls (Virginia) 



Muck (fresh) 



Muck (air -dry) 



Mud (fresh water) 



Mud (.from sea-meadows) 



Peat 



I'ine straw (dead leaves or 



needles) 



Shells (moUusks) 



Shells (crustacea) 



Shell lime (oyster shell) 



Soot 



Spsnt tan 



Spent sumach 



Sugar-house scum 



Turf 



a 



O 



pine 



5.20 



4.40 



1.73 



18.18 



1.50 



15.98 



76.20 



21.40 



40.37 



53.50 



61.50 



7.80 



0.30 



.a 



O 



0.70 



1.25 



Phosphoric Acid 



Avail- 

 able 



Insolu- 

 ble 



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 



0.04 

 0.49 



0.2:: 

 0.20 



0.10 

 0.04 

 0.20 

 0.04 

 1.83 

 0.10 

 0.30 



Total 



0.50 



0.38 

 1.05 

 0.56 

 09 



26 

 10 



20 

 03 

 2.30 

 20 



04 

 . 10 



Analyses of Farm Manures. 



Taken Chiefly from Eeports of the New York, 



Massachusetts and Connecticut Experiment Stations. 



Name of Substance 



Cattle (solid fresh excrement) 



Cattle (fresh urine) 



Hen manure (fresh) 



Horse (solid fresh excrement) . 



Horse (fre.sh urine) 



Human excrement (solid) . . . . 



Human urine 



Poudrette (night soil) 



Sheep (solid fresh excrement) . 



Sheep (fresh urine) 



Stable manure (mi.xed) 



Swine (sohd fresh excrement) 

 Swine (fresh urine) ■ . . ■ 



Moisture 



77 . 20 

 95.90 



73 27 



Nitrogen 



0.29 



5S 



1 63 

 0.44 

 1.55 

 1.00 

 0.60 

 0.80 

 0.55 

 1.95 

 0.50 

 60 

 43 



Potash 



0.10 

 0.49 

 0.85 

 0.3.5 

 1.50 

 0.25 

 0.20 

 0..30 

 0.15 

 2.26 

 0.60 

 0.13 

 0.S3 



Phos- 

 phoric 

 acid 



0.17 



1.54 

 17 



1.09 

 0.17 

 1.40 

 31 

 0.01 

 30 

 0.41 

 07 



