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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Off. Doc. 



Schedule of Values for Fertilizer Ingredients, 1901. 



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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 



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, 



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 



16V6 

 14 

 16 

 16 

 U 

 9 



6 



3 



4% 



2V4 



2 



m 



2V4 

 4 



& 



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 tw^o grades of fineness: Fine, less than s'o inch 

 in diameter; coarse, over -so 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, an allowance of |2.00 per ton on all fertilizers. 



For bagging, an allowance of $1.00 per t'on on all fertilizers, except 

 when sold in original packages. 



For mixing, an allowance of fl.OO 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 quotations on freight from New York, Philadeli)hia and 

 Baltimore to Ilarrisburg, in January, 1897, was .$1.68 per ton, in lots 

 of twelve tons or over; in May, 1890, quotations by the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad were: From New York, $2.40; from Philadelphia, $1.70; 

 and from Baltimore, $1 .55; mean rate from the three points, $1.88. 



