NEWSPAPER BULLETINS PUBLISHED IN 1902. 

 Chas. D. Woods. 



Whenever there is matter of importance which we wish to 

 bring promptly to the attention of the people of the State, we 

 make as clear and concise a statement as possible in the style and 

 type of a newspaper column and mail it as a "Special Newspaper 

 Bulletin" to all the press of the Station exchange mailing list. 

 These newspaper bulletins are quite generally printed by the 

 papers and the Station is under obligations to the press for this 

 opportunity of specially and promptly being put in touch with the 

 people. 



During the year the Station has issued several special news- 

 paper bulletins on miscellaneous subjects and 12 monthly mete- 

 orological bulletins. The results of the meteorological observa- 

 tions thus reported are summarized beyond. The matter of 

 6 of the newspaper bulletins has not appeared in any of the regu- 

 lar bulletins of the Station and is therefore here reprinted as a 

 matter of permanent record. 



FRESH FISH AS MANURE. 



A correspondent at Livermore Centre wrote the Maine Experi- 

 ment Station asking for information as to the value of fresh fish 

 as a fertilizer. The following reply was sent : 



"Fresh fish and fish waste have been used for manure by 

 farmers living along the coast for generations and there is no 

 question as to their fertilizing value for all farm crops. Fish is 

 not, however, a complete fertilizer and its chief value is due to 

 the nitrogen it contains. In the fresh unground fish the phos- 

 phoric acid of the bones is not immediately available to plants but 

 becomes so in time when mixed with the soil. Fish contains 

 practically no potash and unless this ingredient is supplied either 

 in the form of potash salts or wood ashes the land soon becomes 

 exhausted of its available supply. 



"Dried fish has an average composition of water 12 per cent, 

 nitrogent 7.25 per cent and phosphoric acid 8.25 per cent. The 



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