OFFICIAL INSPECTIONS 29. I7 



The P. & P. Potato Phosphate of the Parmenter & Polsey 

 FertiHzer Company was deficient in both nitrogen and potash. 

 Only one sample of these goods was obtained. As the other 

 goods of the company ran fairly well in accord with their guar- 

 antees this was doubtless due to accident of some kind. 



The Provincial Chemical Fertilizer Company of St. John, 

 N. B., agreed in 1909 that they would not solicit new business 

 in Maine in 1910. It will be noted that their goods are, as in 

 the past, below their claim. One of their selling agents in 

 Maine will doubtless be prosecuted the present year in order to 

 convince the company that they must either live up to their 

 guarantees or keep their goods out of the State. 



The goods of the F. W. Tunnell Company run this year fairly 

 in accord with their guarantees, with the exception that their 

 High Grade Fish Guano was low in nitrogen. The goods were 

 only found in one place in the State and only one sample of 

 each was obtained. The general character of the analysis indi- 

 cates that the company endeavors to give goods up to their guar- 

 antees. 



The Whitman & Pratt Company's goods would seem to indi- 

 cate somewhat faulty mixing. Apparently it is the intention 

 of the company to put in all the plant food that they claim. 

 Their Potato Plowman is seriously below in nitrogen, but un- 

 usually h:gh in phosphoric acid and somewhat above in potash. 

 The same general statements apply to their Animal Brand. All 

 of which seems to indicate unsatisfactory and faulty mixing. 



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

 mercial fertilizers collected in the open market in the spring 

 of 1910 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 10 packages and where possible in the 

 presence of a representative of the manufacturers. 



