Table 7. Average Plant Food Content of Natural and Organic Ferilizer Materials (Percentage on a Dry-Weight Basis.

) Organic Materials Fish Scrap Fish Meal Guano, Peru Guano, Bat Sewage Sludge acid Dried Blood Soybean Meal Tankage, Animal 9.0 12.0 7.0 10.0 1.5 1.5 1.0 3.5 6.0 --2.5 2.0 1.0 2.5 --22.0 %N 5.0 10.0 13.0 10.0 %P 3.0 4.0 8.0 4.0 2.0-6.0 1.5 0.8 1.2 15.5 1.5 0.5 %K 0 0 2.0 2.0 Availability slowly slowly moderately acid moderately acid 1.0-2.5 mod. slow 1.5 slowly slowly 0.0-0.4 acid v. sl. acid acid slowly Acidity acid acid

Tankage, Garbage 2.5 Tobacco Stems Seaweed Bone Meal, Raw Castor Pomace Wood Ashes Cocoa Shell Meal

very slowly alkaline 5.0 slowly slowly alkaline --alkaline slowly alkaline neutral acid very slowly alkaline acid

4.0-10.0 --1.2 slowly 0.5

4.0-10.0 quickly 2.5 1.5 33.0 slowly slowly ---

Cotton Seed Meal 6.0 Ground Rock Phosphate --Green Sand Basic Slag ----12.0

1.0 8.0

6.0 --2.0

very slowly --quickly --------0.5-.10 very slowly --alkaline

Horn and Hoof Meal Milorganite Peat and Muck acid 6.0

2.5 1.5-3.0

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0.25-0.5

Spent Mushroom Compost 2.0 .74 1.46 moderately 6.4