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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Off. Doc. 



Trade Values Adopted by the New bJDgland Stations and New Jersey. 



Nitrogen: 



In ammonia salts 



In nitrates 



In dry and flne-ground flsh 



In meat, blood and mixed fertilizers, 



In flne-ground bone and tankage, 



In coarse bone and tankage 



Phosphoric acid: 



Water seluble 



Citrate soluble 



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



In dry, fine-ground fish, bone and tankage 



In coarse flsh, bone and tankage 



In mixed fertilizers, insoluble, 



Potash : 



In forms free from muriate (chlorld) 



As muriate, 



»7.1 

 Ul.l 

 103.2 

 103.2 

 103.2 

 114.3 



111.1 



112.6 



100 



lOO 



100 



100 



100 

 100 



The above prices of nitrogenous salts, ammoniates of animal ori- 

 gin and of the potash salts accord tiuite closely with the New York 

 quotations of the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter for the period, Sep- 

 tember, 1900, to March, 1901. A« to the ground bone, assuming a 

 fineness of 70 per cent, fine and 30 per cent, coarse, the average New 

 England valuations for bone constituents are: Nitrogen, 14.8 cents; 

 phosphoric, acid, 3.7 cents; L e., the nitrogen value is considerably 

 lower, that of phosphoric acid considerably higher than those de- 

 rived from the composition of Pennsylvania ground bone and the 

 tankage prices in the Baltimore market. 



Upon a careful consideration of the changes and tendencies! of the 

 wholesale prices of fertilizer ingredients and of the discrepancies 

 occurring since the adoption of the 1900 schedule of valuation, it 

 has been decided that the schedule for use during 1901 should be the 

 same as that adopted for the use of New Jersey and New England 

 except at two points. 



For reasons fully discussed in 1897, it is needful to include in 

 the Pennsylvania schedule of valuations, a distinct i?et of values for 

 phosphoric acid derived from rock as contrasted with that derived 

 from animal materials. Reference to the tables, given on an earlier 

 page, showing the wholesale cost of a pound of phosphoric acid, will 

 make it plain that when it comes from phosphate rock, it costs the 

 fertilizer maker about one-half to three-fourths of a cent at the 

 mines, on the Atlantic seaboard; when from refuse bone-black, de- 

 livered at New York, 3.4 cents; when from tankage, about 1.1 

 cents; and from bone 2.69 cents. 



