transaction may be readily adjusted, in tliat case, between the contend- 

 ing parlies. The responsibility of the dealer ends with furnishing an 

 article, corresponding in its composition with the lowest stated quantity 

 of each specified essential constituent. Our present laws for the regu- 

 lation of the trade in Commercial Fertilizers include not only the 

 various brands of compound fertilizers, but also all materials single 

 or compound without reference to source used for manurial purposes, 

 when offered for sale in our market at ten dollars or more per ton. 



Copies of our present laws for the regulation of the trade in Com- 

 mercial Fertilizers may be had by all interested on application, at the 

 Massachusetts State Agricultural Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass. 



Arrangements are made as in previous years to attend to the exam- 

 ination of objects of general interest to tlie farming community, to 

 the full extent of existing resources. Requests for analyses of 

 substances — as fodder articles, fertilizers, etc., — coming through 

 officers of agricultural societies and farmers' clubs within the state, 

 will receive hereafter, as in the past, first attention, and in the order 

 that the applications arrive at the office of the Station. The results 

 will be returned without a charge for the services rendered. Appli- 

 cation of private parties for analyses of substances, free of charge, 

 will receive a careful consideration, whenever the results promise to 

 be of a more general interest. For obvious reasons no work can be 

 carried on at the Station, of which the results are not at the disposal 

 of the managers for publication, if deemed advisable in the interest 

 of the citizens of the state. 



All parcels and communications sent on to '• The Massachusetts 

 State Experiment Station " must have express and postal charges 

 prepaid, to receive attention. 



ANALYSES OF COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS AND 



MANURIAL SUBSTANCES SENT ON 



FOR EXAMINATION. 



585.-589. WOOD ASHES. 



I. From Rowley, Mass. 



II. From Concord, Mass. 



III. From Concord, Mass. 



IV. From Boston, Mass. 



V. From Boston, Mass. 



