New YorK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 185 
IV. ANALYSES OF MISCELLANEOUS 
| MATERIALS.* 
L. L.. VAN SLYKE. 
SUMMARY. 
This Bulletin includes the results of analysis of a great variety 
of materials which have come to the Station from time to time. 
Representative cases have been selected for publication. The 
materials included are (1) ashes, (2) dried blood, (3) nitrate of 
soda, (4) meat meal and tankage, (5) potash salts, (6) muck soils, 
(7) the fertilizer constituents of miscellaneous materials, (8) con- 
stituents of miscellaneous feeding stuffs, (9g) molasses refuse, (10) 
commercial gruels, (11) poultry foods, (12) maple sugar, (13) 
home-made cider vinegar, (14) dried apples. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The Station has done gratuitously a large amount of work for 
individual farmers of New York State in the way of chemical 
analysis of materials connected with agriculture. As a result of 
this kind of work, large numbers of analyses of various kinds of 
materials have accumulated in our records during the twenty-five 
years of the Station’s existence. It has seemed desirable to select 
from the data at hand such representative cases as would be of 
interest and to publish these for reference. 
We have indicated in the tables such facts as would add interest 
to the results of analysis, so far as we are able to gain informa- 
tion regarding the samples. 
Ae CLES, 
In most cases a determination of potash only was called for, 
but in a few instances phosphoric acid also was estimated. We 
notice the following facts furnished by the tabulated results: 
1. In the samples of wood ashes examined, the potash varies 
from about 1 to 10 per ct. About one-half of these samples were 
below 4 per ct. in potash, and only about one-third contained over 
_*A reprint of Bulletin No. 293. 
