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Others had but one or two brands on sale and these also were 

 found to be well above. 



The Buffalo brands about which there was some discussion 

 last year were found to run very good the present season. The 

 Top Dresser was slightly below in nitrogen but well above in 

 the other constituents. Three samples of the 5-8-9 goods taken 

 at different places ran about 0.3 per cent below in potash. All, 

 of the other brands were very uniform in composition as indi- 

 cated by the analyses made. 



The Atlantic Fertilizer Company had three different brands 

 on sale which were sampled. Each of the three brands was 

 somewhat below the guaranty in nitrogen, and one of the three 

 was somewhat below in potash, as indicated by the analyses 

 made oij two samples of that brand. 



The goods of the Hubbard Fertilizer Company were appar- 

 ently rather unevenly mixed and none of the samples analyzed 

 ran materially above the guarantees. 



The one brand licensed by Martin and White was under its 

 guarantees in both available and total phosphoric acid and in 

 potash. 



The Bone Dust Tankage of the Portland Rendering Com- 

 pany while somewhat under the guaranty in phosphoric acid 

 more than made up for this shortage in the high nitrogen which 

 it carried. 



The Provincial Chemical Fertilizer Company of St. John, 

 New Brunswick, did not license goods in Maine this year. As 

 was noted in Official Inspections 29, containing the results of 

 last year's collection of fertilizers, we have usually found their 

 goods below the guarantees in one or more constituents, and 

 hi spite of repeated warnings the situation was not improved 

 from year to year. Last year one of their selling agents was 

 prosecuted and fined for selling goods below the guarantees, 

 and as a result their brands were not licensed for the present 

 year and our inspectors failed to find any of the goods on sale 

 in the State. 



A few brands licensed for the year were not found on sale 

 by the inspectors. One of the principal reasons for this is the 

 fact that as more companies come into the State to do business 

 the competition becomes more keen, and more of the goods are 

 shipped to individual consumers without passing through the 



