FERTILIZER ANALYSES. 



TURF. 



106. Sent on by Horace Graves, Amheist, Muss. 



I. Turf from upper layer, consisting largely of leaves, roots and 

 mosses ; brown, colored and fibrous. 



II. Turf from lower layer, consisting of a brown peat-like mass ; 

 taken from four feet below the surface and exposed to the air one 

 year. 



The upper laj^er may be used advantageously as bedding and as 

 an absorber of liquid manure ; the lower layer ought to be composted 

 with lime or ashes before it is incorporated in the soil ; both samples 

 are of a good quality. 



107. Ash of Bogs. Sent on by J. B. Wheeler, Bolton, Mass. 



IMoisture at 100° C, 5.05 per cent. 



Calcium oxide, 3.09 " 



Magnesium oxide, 1.13 " 

 Potassium Oxide, .16 " 



Phosphoric acid, .93 " 



Insoluble matter, 70.92 " 



The ashes were obtained from the burning of the surface growth of 

 a swamp meadow lately in part underdrained. Bogs, hassocks and 

 a few inches thickness of the turf, furnished the ash. The dried-up 

 condition of the vegetable matter explains the presence of but a 

 small quantity of potash. The ash ma}' prove beneficial upon adjoin- 

 ing grass-lands. 



