No. 6. 



DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 



7uy 



Wholesale Cost per Pound of Fertilizer Coustituents, New York. 



II. Bone. 



Grade. 



Constituent valued. 



o 

 o. 



o 



a 



— O 



d 



CO u 



n a 

 1^ 



Rough bone, 

 Ground bone. 



Nitrogen 



Phosphoric acid. 



Nitrogen 



Phosphoric acid. 



13.9 



2.69 



14.47 



2.80 



16.7 

 3.13 



17.38 

 8.26 



These figures tend to be too high, for the reason that the average 

 ground bone and bone meal on the retail market are probably in- 

 ferior in composition to the rough bone on the wholesale market. 

 There are no wholesale data available for the direct estimation of the 

 wholesale pound values of acidulated bone (animal bone); the sche- 

 dule must, upon this point, depend upon retail selling prices. 



VALUATIONS IN NEIGHBORING STATES. 



It IS desirable, from all points of view, that the schedules of valua- 

 tion throughout a district in which similar market conditions pre- 

 vail, should differ as little as possible. It has been our j)ractice in 

 the past, to conform our schedule to that adopted alter very careful 

 co-operative study of market conditions for each year, by the New 

 England states and New Jersey, except where the peculiar conditions 

 of our market have made the valuations diverge too largely from the 

 actual selling prices, as in the case of ground bone and dissolved rock 

 phosphates. 



The schedules for these States for 1900 and 1901 are as follows: 



