FERTILIZER INSPECTION. 



Chas. D. Woods, Director. 



J. M. Bartlett, Chemist in charge of Inspection Analyses. 



The law regulating the sale of commercial fertilizers in this 

 State calls for two bulletins each year. The first of these con- 

 tains the analyses of the samples received from the manufacturer 

 guaranteed to represent, within reasonable limits, the goods to 

 he placed upon the market later. The second bulletin contains 

 the analyses of the samples collected in the open market by a 

 representative of the Station. 



The analyses of the manufacturers' samples for this year 

 were published in March. A number of samples were received 

 so late that the analyses could not be included in the bulletin 

 then issued. The results of these analyses are given in the 

 tables on page 221. 



In the tables (pages 206 to 220) the analyses of the sam- 

 ples of commercial fertilizers collected in the open market in 

 the spring of 1907 by the Station representative are given. As 

 far as possible two samples of each brand were taken, an effort 

 heing made to get the duplicate from a distinct lot of the same 

 "brand in a different part of the State. For the most part 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 a large number 

 of packages and in the presence of a representative of the manu- 

 facturers. 



So far as different lots were found by the inspector two 

 analyses of the same brand are -given in the tables. A few 

 "brands that were licensed were not actually shipped into the 

 State and in two or three instances the inspector failed to find 

 the brands in the hands of the dealers or agents. 



During the years immediately following 1895 there was a 

 tendency to the multiplication of brands. At present it is only 



