72 THE CONNECTICUT AGRICULTUKAL 



Revieav of the Fertilizer Market. 



Organic nitrogen in dried blood and azotin was quoted in New 

 York at vjholesale in November, 1882, at |19.70 to $20.10 per 100 

 pounds. The same prices ruled through December and January. 

 Since then its cost in dried blood has steadily declined, and in 

 November, 1883, stood at from 113.70 to $15.20. From March till 

 August the cost in azotin remained at $18.90, then dropped 

 again, and in November, 1883, it was quoted at $15.20 per 100 

 pounds. 



According to thirteen analyses of ammonite, dried blood and 

 fish scrap, made at the New Jersey Station in the Spring of 1883,* 

 the average retail cost of nitrogen in those articles was $20.08 

 per 100 pounds. f The highest price was $22.90; the lowest, 

 $15.50. These were manufacturers' cash retail prices for ton 

 lots, including bags, but not freightage nor the charges of middle- 

 men. 



The cost of nitrogen in dried fish scrap, containing from 5,3 to 

 8.3 per cent, of phosphoric acid and from 2.9 to 8.5 per cent, of 

 nitrogen, from the stock of retail agents in this State, has ranged 

 from $22.70 to $48.26 per 100 pounds. 



Rejecting this highest figure the average retail cost in six arti- 

 cles has been $24.54. 



Nitrogen in four samples of castor pomace from retail agents 

 in this State has cost from $17.05 to $18.76 per 100 pounds, aver- 

 aging $17.79; and the average cost in three samples of cotton 

 seed meal has been the same, $17.81. 



Nitrogen in ammonia salts cost at wholesale in New York, in 

 November, 1882, $22.20 per 100 pounds. Since then it has quite 

 steadily declined, and was quoted in November last at $16.40. 



In the New York and Philadelphia markets it cost at retail in 

 ton lots, including packages, from $19.75 to $21.50 per 100 

 pounds;;]; average cost, $20.78. 



Two samples from the stock of retailers in this State furnished 

 nitrogen at $22.90 and $23.35. 



* Bulletin XXVII, N. J. Exp't Station. 



f Allowing six cents per pound for the phosphoric acid present in the goods. 



X Bulletin XXVII, N. J. Exp't Station. 



