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Guano from menhaden — Continued. 



2. Dry ground fish-guano. " Percentages : Ammonia, 10£ per cent. j. 



bone phosphate of lime, 15 per cent." 



3. Fish and potash (ammoniated with fish). "Percentages: Am- 



monia, 5 per cent. ; bone phosphate of lime, 12 per cent. ; avail- 

 able phosphoric acid, 5 per cent. ; potash, 5 per cent.' 7 



4. Superphosphate (ammoniated with fish). "Percentages: Am- 



monia, 3 per cent. ; bone phosphate of lime, 25 per cent. ; avail- 

 able phosphoric acid, 10 per cent. ; potash, 2£ per cent." 

 New London, Conn. Quinnipiac Fertilizer Company. 



Guano from menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) . 



1. Unground or crude menhaden scrap ; made of fish two years 



old and over, called large fish. 



2. Ground menhaden scrap ; made from the same stock as No. 1. 



3. Unground or crude menhaden scrap ; made of fish not over 



one year old, called small fish. 



4. Ground menhaden scrap; made of same stock as No. 3. 

 Baltimore, Md. Winfield S. Dunan. 



Menhaden scrap or guano. 



1. Unground or crude scrap. 2. Fine-ground scrap. 3. Very fine- 

 ground scrap. New Bedford, Mass. W. A. Abbe. 



Artificial guano. 



Series of preparations used in the manufacture of Soluble Pacific 

 Guano : 



1. Crude menhaden scrap. 2. Dried and ground menhaden scrap. 

 3. Muriate of potash. 4. Nitrate of soda. 5. Crude South Caro- 

 lina phosphate. 6. Crushed South Carolina phosphate. 7. 

 Ground South Carolina phosphate. 8. Sicily sulphur. 9. Stass- 

 furth kainite. 10. Soluble Pacific guano, unscreened. 11. Solu- 

 ble Pacific guano, screened. Wood's Holl, Mass. Soluble Pacific 

 Guano Company. 



Fish-guano. 



Made from menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) after the oil has been 

 extracted. Gloucester, Mass. A. W. Dodd & Co. 



Fish-guano. 



Made from heads of halibut (Hippoglossus vulgaris) after the oil has 

 been extracted. Gloucester, Mass. A. W. Dodd & Co. 



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