106 HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



REPORT OF THE CHEMIST. 



DEPARTMENT OF FERTILIZERS AND FERTILIZER 

 MATERIALS. 



CHARLES A. GOESSMANN. 



Assistants : henri i>. iiaskins, charles i. goessmann, george d. 



LEAVENS. 



I. Report on Official Inspection of Commercial Fertilizers. 

 II. Report on General Work in the Chemical Laboratory. 

 III. Observations with Special Fertilizers on Tobacco raised in 

 Massachusetts. 



I. REPORT ON OFFICIAL INSPECTION OF COM- 

 MERCIAL FERTILIZERS AND AGRICULT- 

 URAL CHEMICALS IN 1897. 



CHARLES A. GOESSMANN. 



Sixty-six manufacturers and dealers in commercial fertil- 

 izers and agricultural chemicals have secured, during the 

 past year, licenses for the sale of their goods in the State. 

 Thirty-six of these parties have offices for the general dis- 

 tribution of their goods in Massachusetts ; the remainder 

 reside in other States, — ten in New York, six in Connecti- 

 cut, three in Rhode Island, three in Vermont, two in Penn- 

 sylvania, one in Maryland, one in Illinois, one in Ohio and 

 three in Canada. 



The number of distinct brands licensed, including agricult- 

 ural chemicals, amounted to two hundred and ninety. 



The collecting and sampling of the material for official 

 analyses were in charge of Mr. R. H. Smith, a graduate of 



