I found a number of entries in the Massachusetts Sate Agricultural Experiment Station at Amherst, Mass. July, 1883 that my Great Grandfather submitted. So here are some of them. Here is an entry under Fertilizer Analyses.
- Pg. 7
110. Fish and Potash [s], of George W. Miles' Co., Milford, Ct. Collected of D.J. Wright, Northampton, Mass., by State Inspector.
Guaranteed composition; soluble and reverted phosphoric acid (available), 5 to 8 per cent.; potassium oxide, 4 to 6 per cent.; ammonia, 4 to 6 per cent. (equivalent to 3.3 to 5 per cent. nitrogen).
| Pounds per Hundred | |
| Moisture at 100 degrees C. | 15.60 |
| Total phosphoric acid, | 7.51 |
| Soluble phosphoric acid, | 4.88 |
| Reverted phosphoric acid, | .07 |
| Insoluble, phosphoric acid, | 2.56 |
| Potassium Oxide | 4.52 |
| Nitrogen, | 2.70 |
| Valuation per 2000 lbs., | $30.18 |
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