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ANNUAL- REPORT OF THE 



Off. Doc. 



Schedule of Values for Fertilizer Ingredients, 1903. 



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Nitrogen: 



In amnaonia salts, 



In nitrates, 



In meat, dried blood and mixed fertilizer* 



In cotton-seed meal and castor-pomace, 



In fine ground bone and tankage 



In coarse bone and tankage 



Phosphoric acid: 



Soluble In water, in bone fertilizers, 



Soluble in water, in rock fertilizers, 



Soluble in ammoni.um citrate, in bone fertilizers, ... 



Soluble in ammonium citrate in rock fertilizers, 



Insoluble in ammonium citrate, in bone fertilizers, . 



Insoluble in ammonium citrate, in rock 



In fine bone, tankage and fish 



In coarse bone and tankage 



In cotton-seed meal, castor pomace and wood ashes. 

 Potash: 



In high grade sulfate or in forms free from muriate, 



As muriate 



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Potash in excess of that equivalent to the chlorin present, will be 

 valued as sulfate, and the remainder as muriate. 



Nitrogen in mixed fertilizers will be valued as derived from the 

 best sources of organic nitrogen, unless clear evidence to the con- 

 trary is obtained. 



Phosphoric acid in mixed fertilizers is valued at bone phosphoric 

 acid prices, unless clearly found to be derived from rock phosphate. 



Bone is sifted into two grades of fineness: Fine, less than 1-50 

 inch in diameter; coarse, over 1.50 inch in diameter. 



The result obtained by the use of this schedule does not cover the 

 items of mixing, bagging, freight and agents' commission. To cover 

 these, allowances are made as follows: 



For freight, aia allowance of |2.00 per ton on all fertilizers. 



For bagging, an allowance of fl.OO per ton on all fertilizers, except 

 when sold in original packages. 



For mixing, an allowance of |1.00 per ton on complete fertilizers 

 and rock-and-potash goods. 



For agents' commission, an allowance of 20 per cent.* is added to 

 the cash values of the goods ready for shipment. 



The mean quotatiom on freight from New York, Philadelphia and 

 Baltimore to Harrisburg, in Janwary, 1897, was $1.68 per ton, in lots 



