56 THE CONNECTICUT AGEICULTUKAL 



Review of the Fektilizek Market. 



Organic Nitrogen in Dried Blood, Azotin and Ammonite was 

 quoted in New York at wholesale in November, 1881, at $23.40 

 to 124.30 per 100 lbs., which are the maximum figures for the 

 year. It fell a little gradually till January, 1882, and from then 

 on quite rapidly till early summer, when nitrogen in blood sold at 

 $19.90, and in azotin and ammonite at $19.50. Since then prices 

 "have advanced but very little, and on Nov. 1, 1882, nitrogen in 

 blood was quoted at $19.73, and in azotin and ammonite at 119.73 

 to $20.49. 



Thirteen analyses of blood, ammonite, fish, cotton seed, castor 

 pomace, etc., made at the New Jersey and Connecticut Stations 

 this year, show that the average retail cost of nitrogen in them 

 has been $21.60 per 100 lbs. The highest price paid was $29.35, 

 the lowest $16.80. In most cases these were tnamifacturers' 

 i-etail prices, and do not include freight and the charges of 

 middle-men. 



Two samples of Castor Pomace from the stock of retail agents 

 in this State furnished nitrogen at $23 and $29.35 (allowing 6 cts. 

 and 5 cts. respectively for the phosphoric acid and potash in them), 

 though in the cbeaper article there was evidently a lai'ge admix- 

 ture of cotton seed. 



The single sample of cotton seed meal analyzed, with the allow- 

 ance mentioned above for phosphoric acid and potash, furnished 

 nitrogen at $17.35 per 100 lbs. 



There is no other ingredient in commercial fertilizers which 

 shows such wide differences in retail cost as organic nitrogen, and 

 none which requires as much judgment in its purchase, if the 

 buyer desires to get -it at the best advantage to himself. 



Nitrogen in Ammonia ^alts, on the first of November, 1881, 

 cost $25.60 per 100 lbs. at wholesale, and remained stationary in 

 price till March, 1882. Since then it has fallen, and from June on 

 has been quoted at $22.40 per 100 lbs. The average retail price 

 of nitrogen in this form in New York and Philadelphia, as shown 

 by analyses made at the New Jersey* Agricultural Experiment 

 Station and published in Jiily, has been $23.35. The single 

 sample examined here from a Connecticut retail dealer furnished 

 nitrogen at $29.11. The difference between this and the retail 

 New York prices is caused in part by cost of handling and trans- 

 portation. 



