No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 35 



''informer be the purchaser and the goods be for his own use." A new 

 act reiuedjiug this defect was passed by the Legislature of 1901, 

 which goes into ellect Jan. 1, 1902. This act also increases the license 

 fee on fertilizers sold amounting to 100 tons or less, to fifteen dollars 

 instead of ten. This increased sum will now about cover the expenses 

 of collection and analysis. 



Each year there is compiled and published for the benefit of manu- 

 facturers, as well as dealers and farmers, a schedule of values for the 

 various ingredients which are used in the manufacture of commercial 

 fertilizers, rating these constituents according to the ruling prices, 

 which prevail at the time, in the wholesale trade in New York and 

 Baltimore. The schedule of values for fertilizer ingredients for 1901 

 is as follows: 



Cents 

 per pound. 



Nitrogen: 



In ammonia salts 



In nitrates 



In meat, dried blood and mixed fertilizers 



In cotton seed meal and castor-pomace 



In fine ground bone and tankage. 



In coarse bone and tankage, 9 



Phosphoric acid: 



Soluble in water, in bone fertilizers, 



Soluble in water, in rock fertilizers 



Soluble in ammonium citrate, in bone fertilizers 



Soluble in ammonium citrate in rock fertilizers, I ZVi 



Insoluble in ammonium citrate, in bone fertilizers, ' 2 



Insoluble in ammonium citrate, in rock, • 1'.^ 



16V4 



14 



16 



16 



11 



6 

 3 



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 



8V4 



4 



5 

 4% 



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 follow^s: 



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



For bagging, an allowance of |1.00 per ton on all fertilizers, except 

 when sold in original packages. 



3—6—1901 



