MURIATE OF POTASH. 



224. Sent on by M. W. Jefts, for Ashly Farmer's Club, Ashly, 



Mass. 



225. Collected of Boston Fertilizer Co., by C. P. Preston, Dan- 



vers, Mass. 



226. Collected of Bowker Fertilizer Co., at Amherst, Mass. 



224 225 226 



Founds per hundred. 



Moisture at 100° C, 1.00 0.05 0.90 



• Potassium oxide, 51.94 49.60 50.80 



Valuation per 2000 lbs., $44.15 $42.16 $43.18 



WOOD ASHES. 



Sent on for examination by G. B. Hall, Pres. of Ipswich Farmer's 

 Club, Ipswich, Essex County, Mass. 



227. Canada Ashes ; sold at 34 cts. per bushel, weight 48 lbs. 



228. Maine Ashes ; sold at 30 cts. per bushel, weighing 42 lbs. 



227 228 



founds x>er Jitindred, 



Moisture at 100° C, 5.46 18.00 



Calcium oxide, 35.58 34.34 



Potassium oxide, 5.83 4.17 



Sodium oxide, 0.61 0.84 



Phosphoric acid, 2.55 2.56 



Insoluble matter, 11.95 8.70 



^ The difference in the composition of these samples of wood ashes 

 is largely due to a different state of moisture. The retail prices 

 stated do not vary materially from those in our section of the State. 



229. KAINITE. 



Collected of D. A. Horton, Northampton, Mass. 



Valuation per 2000 lbs., $14.08 



