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troller, in such sums and at such times as said Director may 
require, who shall file a statement for what purposes he desires 
the same. 
§ 9. Agents, representatives or sellers of manufactured fertil- 
izers or fertilizing material made or owned by parties outside of © 
this State and offered for sale or use in this State, shall conform 
to the provisions of this act and shall be subject to its penalties, 
and in all particulars shall take the place of their nonresident 
_principals. | ie é 
§ 10. Chapter two hundred and twenty-two of the laws of 
eighteen hundred and seventy-eight is hereby repealed. 
§ 11. This act shall take effect immediately. 
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Wood Ashes. 
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Numerous letters, accompanied with samples, are addressed to q 
the Station, desiring analyses of the samples in order to deter- 
mine whether they are in fact, as they are represented to be by the 
seller “Pure, unleached, Canada, hard wood, ashes.” 
It is probably true that, during the past 20 years, there has 
never been a carload of ashes shipped from Canada or elsewhere 
which corresponds to the above description under which many 
hundreds of carloads are annually sold and used in this country. 
Very many carloads have within the past two or three years 
been shipped into this State from Canada with the official 
guarantee that they contained from 4 to 5 per cent. of potash. 
Twenty-one carloads averaged in guarantee 4.57 percent. As 
the average of 24 analyses made at this Station the potash was 
equal to 5.66 per cent., while the maximum was 8.81 per cent. 
and the minimum was 3.75 per cent. 4 
In the Massachusetts Report for 1893 analyses are given of — 
105 samples of wood ashes with the following average results: 





ag ee ae a 
Per cent 
Per cent 7 
* | phosphoric 
potash. acid, 


NTRS 083) ET Ce ere MS as ee ees eee eee 5.37 1.28 
Maximum 's, 213% ae eee el Gee Leg hehe was 9.46 3.75 
Mai 5. sols ane ey ke eee eee Lea 05 <a 
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