Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State Agricultural Experiment Station at Amherst, Mass., 1883[-94], Volumes 7-9Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers, 1890 |
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66 cellulose 66 protein nitrogenous Amherst ammonia Analysis of Dry Average Boston Calcium oxide cents per pound Commercial Fertilizers Constituents in Pounds consumed Pounds corn ensilage corn fodder corn meal corn stover cost of feed crop Crude ash cubic centimetres digestible dissolved bone-black Dressed weight Dry Matter equal to dry Feed consumed feeding experiments FEEDING PERIODS Fertilizing Constituents Fish and Potash fodder articles fodder corn fungus gestibility Constituents Grade Jersey grass Guano Insoluble matter July June Magnesium oxide Manure Mass meal and bran Moisture at 100 muriate of potash Non-nitrogenous extract matter Number Nutritive Ratio old-process linseed meal Pasture Nov Phosphate phosphoric acid plants Plat Potassium oxide pound of dressed Pounds Digesti pounds wheat bran protein nitrogenous matter Quart of Milk Rowen sent Sept skim-milk Sodium oxide soja bean spores Sugar Beets sulphate Superphosphate Total Amount Valuation vetch and oats weight of animal wheat bran
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Page 247 - Before any commercial fertilizer, the retail price of which is ten dollars or more per ton, is sold, offered or exposed for sale, the importer, manufacturer or party who causes it to be sold or offered for sale within the state of...
Page 229 - ... material sampled, the name of the party from whose stock the sample was drawn and the time and place of drawing, and said label shall also be signed by the director or his deputy and by the party or parties in interest or their representative at the drawing and...
Page 229 - Said director is hereby authorized in person or by deputy to take a sample, not exceeding two pounds in weight, for analysis, from any lot or package of fertilizer or any material used for...
Page 228 - ... but said sample shall be drawn in the presence of said party or parties in interest or their...
Page 271 - Keep the mixture in a warm place for several days, or until a portion heated to 40° C. deposits no yellow precipitate of ammonium phospho-molybdate. Decant the solution from any sediment, and preserve in glass-stoppered vessels.
Page 247 - ... cents per pound ; it being assumed that the organic nitrogen is derived from the best sources, viz., animal matter, as meat, blood, bones, or other equally good forms, and not from leather, shoddy, hair, or any low-priced, inferior form of vegetable matter, unless the contrary is ascertained.
Page 228 - ... provided, that whenever the manufacturer or importer shall have paid the fee herein required for any person acting as agent or seller for such manufacturer or importer, such agent or seller shall not be required to pay the fee named in this...
Page 249 - ... and carefully sealed and a label placed on each stating the name of the party from whose stock the sample was drawn and the time and place of drawing, and said label shall also be signed by the person taking the sample, and by the party or parties in interest or their representatives at the drawing and sealing of said samples; one...
Page 228 - ... the place of manufacture, and a chemical analysis stating the percentage of nitrogen or its equivalent in ammonia, of potash soluble in distilled water, and of phosphoric acid in available form soluble in distilled water and reverted, as well as the total phosphoric acid. In the case of those fertilizers which consist of other and cheaper materials, said label shall give a correct general statement of the composition and ingredients of the fertilizer it accompanies.
Page 228 - ... in a conspicuous place on the outside thereof, a plainly printed statement clearly and truly certifying the number of net pounds in the...