Report of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Conn. for the Year ...The State, 1883 - Agriculture |
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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION albuminoids ammonia Ammoniated Bone Superphosphate average Baker & Bro bone char Bone Phosphate Bowker Fertilizer bran carbonate Castor Pomace cents per pound chemical Chittenden's Chlorine commercial fertilizer Complete Manure composition Conn CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT contains Corn cost crop Dealer digestible Director Dissolved Bone dried blood Dry Ground Fish ensilage feeding stuffs Fertilizer Co's Fiber Fish and Potash Fish Guano grade grams Guano Guaranteed H. J. Baker Hartford Haven inch ingredients insoluble Kainit lime Magnesia Maize Manufacturer Manure Mapes matter milk Muriate of Potash Name or Brand nitrate of soda nitrogen NITROGENOUS SUPERPHOSPHATES package pepsin Peruvian Guano phate Phos Plainville plaster Pomace potash salts Potato Manure Pure Ground Bone Quinnipiac Fertilizer Report retail Rogers & Hubbard saltpeter Sampled and sent soil soluble phosphoric acid specific gravity Station Agent Sulphate of Ammonia sulphuric acid Superphos tion trade-value weight York
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Page 26 - Commonwealth, the retail price of which is ten dollars or more per ton, shall be accompanied by a plainly printed statement clearly and truly certifying the number of net pounds of fertilizer in the package, the name, brand, or trade-mark under which the fertilizer is sold...
Page 19 - ... 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 section...
Page 27 - ... at his request a sealed glass jar or bottle, containing not less than one pound of the fertilizer, accompanied by an affidavit that it is a fair average sample thereof.
Page 29 - No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale in the state of Massachusetts, any pulverized leather, raw, steamed, roasted, or in any form as a fertilizer, or as an ingredient of any fertilizer or manure, without an explicit printed certificate of the fact, said certificate to be conspicuously affixed to every package of such fertilizer or manure and to accompany or go with every parcel or lot of the same.
Page 96 - That no dealer in milk, and no servant or agent of such a dealer, shall sell, exchange, or deliver, or have in his custody or possession with intent to sell, exchange, or deliver, milk from which the cream, or any part thereof, has been removed, unless in a conspicuous place, above the center or upon the outside of every vessel, can, or package thereof, in which milk is sold, the words "skimmed milk" are distinctly marked in gothic letters, not less than one inch in length.
Page 28 - 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...
Page 153 - Heat the insoluble residue for 2J hours with 200 cc. of water and 20 cc. of hydrochloric acid (sp. gr. 1.125) in a flask provided with a reflux condenser. Cool, and nearly neutralize with sodium hydroxid.
Page 13 - It is the wish of the Board of Control to make the Station as widely useful as its resources will admit. Every Connecticut citizen who is concerned in agriculture, whether farmer, manufacturer, or dealer, has the right to apply to the Station for any assistance that comes within its province to render, and the Station will respond to all applications as far as lies in its power.
Page 43 - If the selling price is several dollars per ton more than the valuation, it may still be a fair price ; but in proportion as the cost per ton exceeds the valuation there is reason to doubt the economy of its purchase. 2, Comparisons of the valuations and selling prices of a number of similar fertilizers will generally indicate fairly which is the best for the money. But the valuation is not to be too literally construed, for analysis cannot always decide accurately what is the form of nitrogen, etc.,...
Page 64 - ... floor if needful, and crushing any soft, moist lumps in order to facilitate mixture, but leaving hard, dry lumps unbroken, so that the sample shall exhibit the texture and mechanical condition of the fertilizer. 4. Take out five (5) equal cupfulls from different parts of the mixed portions of each package.