Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-04-25
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS.


Report Of the State Chemist and Notes.
AT the last session of our legislature q law
was made to regulate the sale OF commercial
fertilizers, from which law the following ex-
tracts are taken:
SIC. 8. Manufacturers and importers Of CONNER
cial fertilizers sold or offered for sale In this state
shall before such fertilizer is sold or offered for sale
securely aihx to each barrel bag package Of such
fertilizers a label wherein they shall state in legible
print the name and place Of business Of such manu-
tacturer or importer the year Of the manufacture Of
such fertilizer or, II the fertilizer is imported the
year Of ts importation, and the net weight Of the
same also the constituent parts Of such fertzer,a
the percentage Of nitrogen Of potash, Of soluble
verted and insoluble phosphoric acid.
Sec. 4. manufacturer or importer Of commercial
fertilizers sold or offered for sale IN the state, who
violates any Of the provisions Of this act shall forfeit
to the state $1,000 to be recovered in action on the
bond given by such manufacturer or importer under
the provision Of Sec Of this act And 1t shall be the
duty Of the secretary Of the board Of agriculture to
notify the state treasurer Of ali Violations Of the pro-
visions Of this act and the state treasurer shall mme
diaely commence suit the bond in the name Of the
state, and prosecute the same to final judgment.
A part Of section 10 is that "the state chem
ist, who shall properly Rnalyze the same, shall
duly report to the secretary Of the board of
agriculture the result Of said analysis, stating
the methods used by him to determine the
amounts Of potash, nitrogen Soluble revert
ed) and insoluble phosphoric acid, and such
amounts and said secretary of the board Of
agriculture shall cause such reports to be pub
hshed, giving the name of the chemist max
ing the same, and agreeable to this submit
the following
Prof. A. H. Ssbin OF the University of Yer
mont at Burlington is state chemist, ey OficiO,
to analyze the same, and has analysed as fol-
lows part of said samples, but sickness in
his family and increased work has prevented
the completion of all the samples. The meth
DDS used are determination of phosphoric acid
in nhaeuAa irpu oil hv-,,
method in presence of iron and aluminium
by Pemberton's molybdate of ammonia meth
cd potash, by precipitation with platinum
chlorides, and nitrogen by combustion with
soda lime. The latter does not give nitrogen
present as nitrRtes, but is the common meth
cd. That the farmer may understand their
relative value, figure their worth as l believe
it to be a comparative standard, by placing a
supposed value to ammonia of 2G cents nj
trogen, "a cents soluble and reverted phos.
phoric acid at 12t cents insoluble phosphoric
acid at six cents, and potash at FIVE cents per
pound Some figure soluble phosphoric acid
at 124 cents and reverted at eight cents but
as believe the reverted to be as valuable as
the soluble, I see no reason to reduce the
prices for 1t, though it is usual SO to do /
figure thus that the farmer may see their com
parative value, rs ! believe, from a reasonable
standpoint and yet it does not show that the
benefit is limited TO that price, or that it will
benefit you at all This must be found out by
experiment. 1 give in the following tables
the percentage of each ingredient supposed
to be valuable, as called for in the law. First,
as found by the average of three separate an.
alyses of our state chemist, and second as
guaranteed by the manufacturer. 1t will be
seen that figure the worth, also, from the
prices before mentioned, and place the same
under the percentages. Thus the farmer at a
glance can see the comparative value
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