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Report of the Chemist of the 



Commercial Valuation and Selling Price of Complete Fertilizers. 



189?. 



Commercial 

 Valuation of 



Complete 

 Fertilizers. 



Average. 



Selling Price op One Ton of 

 Complete Fertilizer. 



Lowest. Highest. Average. 



S.BSS 



O * *> 



t» o a 3 t* 



Spring $18 52 $15 00 $45 00 $27 65 



Fall '. 17 34 14 25 35 00 23 16 



Average for year 18 34 26 93 



$9 13 

 5 82 

 8 59 



Commercial Valuation and Selling Price of Chemicals and Incomplete 



Fertilizer?. 



Commercial Valuation. 



Selling Price. 



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to 



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S3 

 60 



£ 



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 05 



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 ID 

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60 



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Nitrate of soda $38 48 $40 40 $39 44 $38 75 $40 00 



Sulphate of ammonia 56 95 



Dissolved phosphate. 10 25 26 65 1310 1100 26 00 



Kainit 10 84 



Muriate of potash 42 67 



Fish-scrap 18 05 



Bone-meal 11 94 



Mixtures containing 

 phosphoric acid and 

 potash 8 93 



30 14 

 30 41 



25 67 

 25 32 



14 00 

 20 00 



26 00 

 38 00 



$39 38 

 60 00 

 15 53 

 15 00 

 40 00 

 2167 

 27 70 



18 38 13 06 15 00 30 00 20 00 



Wood-ashes 



•3 03 8 37 5 77 9 00 12 00 10 30 



*$0 06 

 3 05 

 2 43 

 416 

 *2 67 

 ♦4 00 

 2 38 



6 94 

 4 53 



* Commercial valuation greater than selling price. 

 COST OF ONE POUND OF PLANT-FOOD IN FERTILIZERS AS PURCHASED 



BY CONSUMERS. 



In the table below we present figures showing the lowest, highest 



and average cost to the purchaser of one pound of plant-food in 



different forms. 



Cost of One Pound of Plant- Food to Consumers. 



Lowest. Highest. Average 



Nitrogen in 



Complete fertilizers . . 



Bone-meal 



Fish-scrap 



Nitrate of soda / 



Sulphate of ammonia 



