No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 753 



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



Cents per Pound. 



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5 c 



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Nitrogen: 



In ammonia salts 



In nitrates 



In dry and fine ground flsh 



In meat blood and mixed fertilizers 



In fine ground bone and tankage 



In coarse bone and tankage, 



Phosptiorlc acid: 



Water soluble 



Citrate soluble 



In cotton-seed meal, castor pomace and wood ashes 



In dry, fine ground fish, bone and tankage, 



In coarse fish, bone and tankage 



In mixed fertilizers, insoluble 



Potash: 



In forms free from muriate (chlorid), 



As muriate 



100 



106.6 



103.0 



103.0 



103.0 



104.2 



100.0 



112.5 



100 



100 



100 



100 



100 

 100 



As in past years, because the New England valuations correspond 

 well, as a rule, with the Pennsylvania selling prices for complete fer- 

 tilizers and dissolved bone, and because they reflect, in the main, the 

 variations in the wholesale prices that have occurred during the past 

 manufacturing season as compared with the season preceding, and 

 also because uniformity of valuation is desirable over the same gen- 

 eral territory, the foregoing schedule of the New England states 

 and New Jersey for the year 1904 has been adopted for Pennsylvania 

 with the exception of values for ground bone and dissolved rock. 



These fertilizer materials require different valuation in Pennsylva- 

 nia from that accorded them in the other states just named, in order 

 that selling prices and computed valuations may coincide. The 

 reasons for this fact have been so often discussed in past years, that 

 repetition seems unnecessary at this time. 



New York quotations for bone do not reflect precisely Pennsylva- 

 nia prices; they are nevertheless of value as indicators of relative 

 values of this commodity from season to season. The data com- 

 piled from the Od, Paint and Jjrug Eeporter show a strong advance 

 in bone prices during the past season. This corresponds with the 

 advance in other slaughter-house fertilizer products exhibited in 

 botli New York and Baltimore quotations. Furthermore, bone re- 

 tail selling prices during 190;} considerably exceeded the computed 

 valuations. For these reasons, an advance has been made in the 

 schedule of bone values, especjally as respects the nitrogen. 



Respecting the ])rices of dissolved phosphate rock, the following 

 facts appear: From 1902 to 190.3 there was a heavy advance in the 

 mine prices of the raw rock, a sharp decrease in the value of sul- 

 phuric acid, no change in the market quotations for the acid phos- 

 phate; the schedule of valuation for these goods was therefore not 

 changed in 1903. During 1903 the retail selling prices advanced 



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