OFFICIAL INSPECTION I9. II 



come to US of bad mechanical condition, largely on the part o£ 

 one manufacturer, and at present there seems to be justification 

 for this complaint. Another manufacturer whose goods appear 

 in the State for the first time has apparently signally failed m 

 making good his claims. There is reason to believe that this 

 was unintentional and due to the mistakes or incompetency on 

 the part of the. person employed to manufacture the goods. 



The user of fertilizers should carefully study the results of 

 the analyses given in this bulletin. The failure of a single 

 sample to conform to its analysis may be no f-erious fault of 

 the manufacturer as it may happen that for some reason the 

 sample which was examined by the Station did not fairly repre- 

 sent the goods. While only experienced men draw the Station 

 samples, long experience has taught us that even exercising the 

 greatest care possible there may be mistakes on our part as well 

 as on the part of the manufacturer. If many of the different 

 brands made by the company whose fertilizer a man has been 

 using do not conform within reasonable limits to their guaran- 

 teed analysis he should carefully consider the advisability of 

 getting goods from other manufacturers. 



In the tables that follow, the analyses of the samples of com- 

 mercial fertilizers collected in the open market in the spring 

 of 1909 by the Station representatives are given. The samples 

 were drawn by experienced men and every precaution was 

 taken to make sure that they fairly represented the goods sam- 

 pled. So far as possible the samples were taken in the large 

 warehouses where a large amount of the goods were stored as 

 received from the factory. They were taken in almost every 

 instance from at least lo packages and where possible in the 

 presence of a representative of the manufacturers. 



