538 ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



Wholesale Cost per Pound of Fertilizer Constituents, New York. II. Bone. 



Rough bone. 

 Ground bone, 



Valuation in Neighboring States. 

 It is desirable, from all points of view, that the schedules of valuation 

 throughout a district in which similar market conditions prevail, should differ 

 as little as possible. It has been our practice in the past, to conform our 

 schedule to that adopted after very careful cooperative study of market condi- 

 tions for each year, by the New England States and New Jersey, except where 

 the peculiar conditions of our markets have made the valuations diverge too 

 largely from the actual selling prices, as in the case of ground bone and dis- 

 solved rock phosphates. The schedules for these States for 1905 and 1906 are as 

 follows: 



Trade Values Adopted by the New England States and New Jersey. 



Nitrogen: 



In ammonia salts, , 



In nitrates 



In dry and fine ground fish 



In meat blood and mixed fertilizers, 



In fine ground bone and tankage 



In coarse bone and tankage, 



Phosphoric acid: 



Water soluble 



Citrate soluble 



In cotton seed meal, castor pomace, fine ground fish and 

 wood ashes ■ 



In fine bone and tankage, 



In coarse bone and tankage, 



In mixed fertilizers, insoluble. 



Potash: 



In forms free from muriate 



As muriate, 



100 



112.1 



110.8 



110.8 



113.9 



115.4 



111.1 

 112.5 



lOO 

 100 

 100 

 lOO 



100 

 lOO 



♦Except in New Jersey, where owing to the legal requirements of methods which indicate a 

 lc«!6 quantity of citrate soluble than is obtained by use of the official method a valuation of 4'/i 

 cents per pound has been adopted. 



These values show changes since March 1, 1906, corresponding quite closely to 

 the main changes shown in wholesale market reports. In the case of bone and 

 rock phosphate goods, the correspondence is not so readily apparent. It should 

 be borne in mind that the New England Station's schedule is based not solely 

 upon the wholesale quotations from September to March, but also upon con- 

 tract prices and retail quotations during January and February. 



As in preceding years Pennsylvania retail selling prices for dissolved rock 

 and ground bone bear no close correspondence to New York wholesale prices 

 for these commodities. Independent valuations must therefore be made. 



