The herald., 1896-12-19
A PROPOSED ACT
To Regulate the Manufacture and Sale
of Commercial Fertilizers


1. That every commercial fertilizer
which shall be offered for sale in this
state shall be accompanied by an analy-
sis stating the percentage of the ingre-
dents claimed to be therein of ammonia,
or of its equivalent in nitrogen, and the
material from which 1t is obtained; of
potash in any form or combina ton. SOL
uble in distilled water, and the material
from which the potash Is obtained; of
phosphoric acid in any form or combi-
nation; the portion of phosphoric acid
soluble in neutral solution of citrate of
ammonia not exceeding $50 degrees F.;
that portion of phosphoric acid not solu-
BILE shall be determined and stated sep
arately, and the material from which the
phosphoric acid is obtained shall also
be stated; the percentage of sulphurio
acid contained in the sulphate of lime
and the percentage of iron contained in
the sulphate of iron shall also be stated: :
q legible statement of such analyses, to-
gether with the net weight of each pack
age shall accompany all packages or lots
sold, offered or exposed for sale.
Q. That any person selling, offering or
exposing for sale any commercial fer
tilzer or gypsum without the analyses
required by the first section of this act,
or with the analyses stating that the aid
fertilizer contains a larger percentage of
any one or more of the constituents men,
toned in the first section of this act,
than is actually contained in said fer
tilizer shall be guilty of misdemeanor
punishable by fine not exceeding 500
for each offense. Provided further, that
the provisions of this section shall not
apply to any manure sold at price not
exceeding $S per ton.
3. All funds collected under the pro-
visions of this act shall be paid one-half
to the complainant and one-half into the
school fund Of the county where the COM
plant is tried.
4. This act shall take effect thirty days
after its passage.
Bulletin 119.
Cornell University Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station:
THE TEXTURE OF THE SOIL.
The other day I secured one sample
Of soil from a very hard clay knoll upon
which beans had been planted but in
which they were almost unabI to ger
inmate, another sample from contlgu-
Gus soil in which beans Were growing
luxuriant1y. and as a third sample.
Clipped q piece of rock off my house
which is built Of stone of the neighbor-
hood. All of these samples were taken
to the chemist, Mr.. Cavanaugh, for an
alysis. The area from which I took the
lard and unproductive clay (sample y
10 SAOWA III Z IL LOU lie ISdutI Will HOL
be able. I think, to discover any bean
plants upon 1t, although the seed was
drilled into it at the same time as in
the soil which furnished sample II. Fig
1877 shows the area from which sample
II. was taken. This area is only twenty
feet removed from the other, and is of
the same original formation, but it
differs in being in a slight depression or
draw" and the soil is in fairly fine de-
gree of division. 1t is really q good
bean soil. The samples of soil which were
actually taken to the chemist are shown
in Fig. 13S. The rock Sample III.) was
hard limestone, known to geologists as
the Tully formation,
The chemist report follows: