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intend to do much more than make good the minimum guaran- 

 tee, and it is not surprising that this results in some of the goods 

 falling below the guarantee in one or more ingredients. The 

 table which follows gives the names of the goods and the ingre- 

 dients in which they are deficient. No brand is included in this 

 list unless it falls short at least one-tenth in one or more of its 

 ingredients. 



A LIST OF FERTILIZERS SOLD IN MAINE IN 1900 THE OFFICIALLY 

 COLLECTED SAMPLES OF WHICH CONTAINED LESS THAN NINE 

 TENTHS OF THE GUARANTEED AMOUNTS OF ONE OR MORE OF THE 

 FERTILIZING CONSTITUENTS. 



Kind of Fertilizer 



Deficient in 



240S 

 2409 

 2410 



2427 



2428 

 2477 



2506 

 2508 



2518 



2520 

 2531 



2533 



2551 

 2556 



2557 



Blan chard's Fish, Bone and Potash 



Blanchard's Grass and Grain Fertilizer 



Blanchard's Ground Fish Scrap 



Stookbridge Potato and Vegetable Manure 



Stockbridge Seeding Down Manure 



Swift's Lowell Ground Bone 



Philbrick's Fertilizer 



Provincial Chemical Fertilizer Co.'s Potato Phos- 

 phate 



Read's Sure Catch Fertilizer 



Read's Sampson Fertilizer 



Sagadahoc Special Potato Fertilizer (sampled at 



Bangor) 



Yankee Fertilizer 



Crocker's Potato, Hop and Tobacco Phosphate 



Sagadahoc Special Potato Fertilizer (sampled at 



Bowdoinham) 



Sagadahoc Superphosphate 



Total phosphoric acid. 

 Nitrogen and potash. 

 Potash. 



Nitrogen. 

 Nitrogen. 

 Nitrogen. 



Nitrogen. 



Potash. 



Available and total phos- 

 phoric acid. 



Available phosphoric acid 



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Nitrogen. 



Total phosphoric acid and 

 nitrogen. 



Nitrogen. 



Nitrogen. 

 Nitrogen. 



While the number of brands which are considerably below 

 their guarantee in one or more ingredients is quite large, (15), 

 it is less than last year and there is little reason for thinking that 

 there is intention to defraud. It frequently happens that a fer- 

 tilizer which is below in one ingredient is considerably above in 

 others. While this frees the manufacturer from suspicion of 

 attempting to defraud, it is, nevertheless, a serious defect in the 

 fertilizer. It is not enough that a fertilizer contains an equivalent 

 amount of some other kind of plant food. When the purchaser 

 pays for fifty pounds of nitrogen he is not rightly treated if the 

 manufacturer gives him thirty pounds of nitrogen, even though 

 he gives him enough more of potash or phosphoric acid to make 

 a financial equivalent. 



