De;ce;mber, 191 5. 



MAINE 

 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 

 ORONO, MAINE. 

 CHAS. D. WOODS, Director. 



ANALYSTS. 



James M. Bartlett Herman H. Hanson 



Royden L. Hammond Edward E. Sawyer 



Elmer R. Tobey Walter H. Rogers 



Official 3mptttion^ 



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FERTILIZER INSPECTION. 



The Commissioner of Agriculture is the executive of the law 

 regulating the sale of commercial fertilizers in Maine. It is 

 the duty of the Director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station to make the analyses of the samples collected by the 

 Commissioner, and to publish the results of the analyses of 

 the samples of commercial fertilizers, together with the names 

 of the persons from whom the samples were obtained, the names 

 of the manufacturers thereof and such additional information 

 as may seem advisable. 



The outlines of the requirements of the law begin on page 226 

 and the explanation of the tables on page 228. The tabulated 

 results of analyses begin on page 230. The discussion of the 

 results of analyses and an article on fertilizers without potash 

 in 1916 follow the tables. 



Note. All correspondence relative to the inspection laws should be 

 addressed to the Commissioner of Agriculture, Augusta, Maine. 



