1922]BATES: QUARTZ JPLATES STANDARDIZATION AND NORMAL WEIGHT 315

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON QUARTZ PLATES STANDARD-

IZATION AND NORMAL W E I G H T .
BY FREDERICK (Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C ) ,
BATES
Chairman.
Your committee, consisting of Frederick Bates, chairman, C. A.
Browne and F. W. Zerban, was appointed as a result of the 1919 report

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of the referee on sugar 1 by the late A. Hugh Bryan. The subsequent
illness and death of Mr. Bryan made it practically impossible for the
committee to get any satisfactory results on the matters involved in
time to present them at this meeting. I t is therefore recommended
that the committee be continued for another year.
Adopted.
REPORT OF C O M M I T T E E ON METHODS OF SAMPLING
FERTILIZERS TO COOPERATE W I T H A SIMILAR
COMMITTEE OF T H E AMERICAN CHEMICAL
SOCIETY 2 .
The work of the committee was completed and reported last year 3 .
The committee has nothing further to recommend at this time except
a repetition of the 1919 recommendations, which are as follows, and
that the committee be discharged.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
It is recommended—
(1) That a sampler be used that removes a core from the bag from
top to bottom.
(2) That at least a pound of the material should constitute each
official sample sent to headquarters.
(3) That the entire sample submitted to the chemist be passed through
a 10-mesh sieve previous to its subdivision for analysis.
(4) That cores shall be taken from not less than 10 per cent of the
bags present, unless this necessitates cores from more than 20 bags,
in which case a core shall be taken from 1 bag from each additional
ton represented. If there are less than 100 bags, not less than 10 bags
shall be sampled, provided that in lots of less than 10 bags all bags
shall be sampled.
Respectfully submitted,
C. H. JONES,
E. G. PROULX,
B. F. ROBERTSON.
Committee on Methods of Sampling Fertilizers
to Cooperate with a Similar Committee of
Adopted. the American Chemical Society.
1
2
J.Assoc. Official Agr. Chemists, 1921, 4 : 321.
Presented by C. H. Jones.
a J. Assoc. Official Agr. Chemists, 1921, 4 : 594.