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in question. In reporting results of analysis, full information 

 is given as to commercial value of the product and the best 

 manner of using it. In many cases w^here a by-product does not 

 have the plant food constituents present in the right proportion, 

 suggestions are made as to the best manner of balancing the ma- 

 terial by the addition of chemicals. In reporting analyses of 

 lime products it has been the custom to furnish not only the 

 chemical analysis but also the probable proportion of the vari- 

 ous forms of lime and magnesia present; i.e., whether caustic, 

 hydrated (slaked) or carbonate of lime and magnesia were 

 present, and amounts of each. 



In reporting soil analysis, information has been furnished as 

 to treatment with lime, manures and fertilizers. 



With the exception of some of the lime products, chemicals 

 and complete fertilizer formulas which have been collected by 

 our inspectors, and which appear in a table by themselves in 

 the Fertilizer Bulletin, the analyses above mentioned will not 

 be published. 



3. Repokt of the Fp:ed and Daiky Section. 

 Mr. P. II. Smith submits the following: — 



The Feed Laiu {Acts and Eesolves for 1903, Chapter 122). 



During the year, 902 samples of commercial feeding stuffs 

 have been collected by James T. Howard, official inspector. 

 These samples have been examined, and the analytical results 

 together with additional information are given in Bulletin No. 

 142. 



The year has been uneventful in that the law has been well 

 complied with, and few new feeding stuffs have been found. 

 Prices have ruled high, and our inspector reports that the stock 

 on hand has been, during parts of the year, very low. This 

 was due to the difficulty of getting shipments promptly and to 

 the fact that, owing to the uncertainty of the market, dealers 

 did not care to stock heavily. 



The most important event of the year was the enactment of 

 a new feeding stuffs law which took eft'ect Sept. 1, 1912. This 



