No. 5. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



441 



Wholesale Cost per Pound of Fertilizer Constituents, New York. 



II. Bone. 



Rough bone, 

 Ground bone, 



1 Notrogen 



[ Phosphoric acid, 



Nitrogen 



I Phosphoric acid, 



23.82 

 2.87 



23.81 

 3.M 



Valuation in Neighboring States. 



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

 tion throughout a distinct in which similar market conditions pre- 

 vail, 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 the market conditions for each year, by the 

 New England States, New York and New Jersey, except where the 

 peculiar conditions of our markets have been made the valuations 

 diverge too largely from the actual selling prices, as in the case of 

 ground bone and dissolved rock phosphates. The schedules for these 

 States for 1903 and 1914 are as follows : 



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



Cents Per Pound. 



Nitrogen : 



In nitrates, 



In ammonium salts, 



In dry and f:ne ground fish and dried blood. 



In fine bone and tankage, 



In coarse bone and tankage, 



In mixed fertilizers, 



Phosphoric acid: 



Water soluble, 



Citrate soluble 



In fine ground bone and tankage 



In coarse bone and tankage, 



In mixed fertilizers, insoluble, 



Potash: 



In forms free from muriate 



As muriate 



u 



3 4) 



> 



89.2 

 89.2 

 112.6 

 113.2 

 U6.7 

 102.6 



100.0 

 100.0 

 100.0 



100.0 

 lOO.O 



9&.2 



94.1 



