bone-meal

Central Bi-Products's president, Don Davis, said in an interview that he was "shocked and surprised" that anyone was suggesting his bone-meal ingredients were tainted, in light of recent FDA reports on Wright County Egg farms.

Pointing Fingers in Recall of Eggs 2010

The soil at the base of the woody stalks was bone-meal white.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

His boots were powdered white with dust and the uneasy bone-meal of this place.

The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982

Finely ground steamed bone-meal, fish-meal, and meat-meal guano 60

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

In order to obtain a correct estimate of the relative value of these different forms of phosphatic manures, it was necessary to render the nitrogen in the bone-meal and the nitrogen and potash contained by the Peruvian guano inactive -- _i. e._, to limit the test strictly to phosphoric acid.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

Mr. C.F.A. Tuxen has already published in the present year two series of experiments on the formation of ammonia and nitric acids in soils to which bone-meal, fish-guano, or stable manure had been applied; in all cases he found the formation of ammonia preceded the formation of nitric acid.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

Among these may be mentioned bone-meal and farmyard manure.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

Formerly the manure called dissolved bones was often a mixture of mineral superphosphate along with undissolved bone-meal, but recent legislation has stopped the continuance of this practice.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

Thus, for example, when it is stated in an analysis of bone-meal that it contains 3.5 per cent of nitrogen, equal to 4.20 per cent of ammonia, it is not to be inferred that bone-meal actually contains nitrogen in the form of ammonia.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

On a light soil it may be advisable to add superphosphate of lime, guano, or bone-meal, in quantities of 2 to 3 cwt. per acre, in addition to a nitrogenous manure.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman