FEr.TILIZER INSPECTION. 



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Notwithstanding the great discrepancies between guarantee 

 and the actual composition of the goods offered, it has not been 

 deemed best to report the case to the Secretary of Agriculture. 

 Correspondence seems to indicate that while the Company has 

 made great mistakes, that there was no intention to defraud. If 

 they sell goods in Maine next year they will take pains to learn 

 their composition before offering them. 



A LIST OF FERTILIZERS SOLD IX iMAINE IN 1899, THE OFFICIALLY 

 COLLECTED SAMPLES OF WHICH CONTAINED LESS THAN NINE- 

 TENTHS OF THE GUARANTEED AMOUNTS OP ONE OR MORE OF THE 

 FERTILIZING CONSTITUENTS. 



Kind of Fei'tilizer. 



Deficient in. 



Blaiicliarcl's Fish, P.one and Potash . 

 Stockbridge Seeding Down Manure 

 Stockbridge Top Di-essing Manure.. 



Bradlej'^'s Eureka Fertilizer 

 Bradley's X. L. Phosphate .. 

 Great Planet Manure 



Total phosphoric acid. 

 Total phosphoric acid. 

 Nitrogen. 



Available phosphoric acid. 



Nitrogen. 



Nitrogen. 



Cleveland Bone and Potash I Potash. 



Darling's Animal Fertilizer "G" Brand Potash. 



♦Darling's Blood, Bone and Potash Nitrogen and potash. 



Lister's Seeding Down Fertilizer. 



Swift's Lowell Ground Bone 



Otis Seeding Down Fertilizer 



Philbrick's Fertilizer 



Provincial Chemical Fertilizer Co.'s Imperial Super- 

 phosphate - 



Provincial Chemical Fertilizer Go's Special Potato 

 Phosphate 



*Quinnipiac Phosphate 



Maine State Grange Potato Manure . 

 Dirigo Fertilizer 



Potash. 

 .Nitrogen. 



Nitrogen and total phos- 

 phoric acid. 

 Available phosphoric acid. 



Nlti'ogen. 



Nitrogen. 



Nitrogen. 

 Nitrogen. 



Nitrogen and total phos- 

 phoric acid. 



* A second sample drawn at another place while not up to the guarantee was 

 better than this one. 



LICENSED FERTILIZERS NOT FOUND IN THE STATE. 



The following brands were licensed and probably sold in the 

 State, but were not found by the inspector. The analysis of the 

 manufacturers' samples of these goods is here reprinted from 

 Bulletin 50 of this Station. 



