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Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 1917. 



Table Showing the Results of Examination of Samples of Lime 

 and Limestone Collected by the Inspectors in ipi^ 



9 si 









:- ■■■» 



.2 S 



C3 3 



w a 







Per 



Cent 



Name of Maker 



Brand 



Calcium Oxide 









Found 



Claimed 



4635 



A. J. Bird,—. 



Ground Limestone 



58.12 





4715 



Edward Bryant Company, 



Agricultural Lime _.. _ 



43.80 





4815 



J. A. Creighton & Co 



Creighton's Agricultural 











Lime 



50.92 



60.00 



4703 



Dominion Lime Co 



Dudwell Pulverized Agricul- 

 tural Limestone - ._ 



53.86 





4818 



Dominion Lime Co 



Dudswell Pulverized Lime- 

 stone - . - 



53.18 



80.23 











4639 Pownal Lime Company 



Fine Groimd Limestone 



49.30 



45.00 



4591 Rockland & Rockport Lime 









i Co., 



R. R. Ground Limestone 



54.06 



51.00 



4688 



Rockland & Rockport Lime 











Co., 



R. R. Ground Limestone 



53.74 



51.00 



4742 



Rockland & Rockport Lime 











Co., 



R. R. Ground Limestone 



53.20 



51.00 



4590 



Rockland & Rockport Lime 

 Co., 



R. R. Land Lime, A High 









Rockland & Rockport Lime 



Calcium Lime 



62.14 



60.00 



4714 









Co., - . 





59.14 











LAND PLASTER 



Two brands of land plaster were collected. A sample from 

 Plaster Rock, N. S., carried 22.40 per cent calcium oxide and 

 a sample from the United States Gypsum Company carried 

 26.90 per cent. Neither of these samples carried guaranties as 

 required by law. 



MUSSLIZER 



This material which claimed to be dried mussel bed mud 

 was made and offered in the State. A sample collected by 

 the inspectors showed it to carry .63 per cent of total nitrogen, 

 .29 per cent total phosphoric acid and .54 per cent potash. Thirty 

 six per cent was ground fine enough to pass through a sieve 

 60 meshes to the inch, 17 per cent passed a 40 mesh sieve, 29 

 per cent a 20 mesh sieve and 18 per cent was too coarse to go 

 throusrh a 20 mesh sieve. 



