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Valuations in Pennsylvania. 



For reasons stated on the previous page, the New England schedule 

 has been followed in the case of mixed fertilizers and dissolved bones. 



In the case of the dissolved rocks, the wholesale prices of raw 

 materials used in their manufacture and of the available phosphoric 

 acid itself, having shown no material change, the values used in the 

 Pennsylvania schedule for 1913 are continued for use during the 

 present year. 



With respect to the potash and nitrate salts, the experience of re- 

 cent years has shown a growing increase in the proportion of the of- 

 ficial samples that represent direct cash purchases in large quantities. 

 The result has been that the commercial valuations, based upon the 

 conditions and costs of sale in small quantities, through local agents 

 and on time, came to be, in a large fraction of the cases represented 

 by these salts whose analyses are reported in the miscellaneous group, 

 strikingly higher than the selling prices quoted. For this reason, it 

 has appeared needful to proceed, hereafter, upon the assumption that 

 all potash and nitrate salts sold, unmixed' as such, have heen pur- 

 chased at what are virtually johhers' prices plus frcifiht, and to adopt 

 corresponding pound values. Tn tJie case, however, of potash and 

 nitrogen in mixed fertilizers, the computation loill he made as hereto- 

 fore, upon tlw assumed hasis of sale on time, in small quantities and 

 through local dealers. 



Buyers who are interested in the comparative jobbing prices of 

 other materials, will find the data in the preceding pages. 



The entire schedule adopted for use in this State is presented in 

 the following table. 



Pennsylvania Schedule of Values for Fertilizer Ingredients, 1914. 



Nitrogen : 



In ammonia salts 



In nitrates 



In meat, dried blood, etc., 



In mixed fertilizers, 



In fine ground bone and tankage 



In coarse bone and tankage, 



Phosphoric Acid: 



Available, in bone fertilizers, 



Available, in ror-k fertilizers, 



Insoluble in ammonium citrate, in bone fertilizers 



Insoluble in ammonium citrate, in rock fertilizers 



In fine bone, tankage and fish 



In coarse bone and tankage 



Potash : 



In high grade sulphate of other forms free from muriate, 

 As muriate ■ 



Cents 



Per 



Pound. 



164 



16i 



22i 



19 



17 



15 



4i 



3 



2 



li 



31 



Potash in excess of that equivalent to the chlorin present, will he 

 valued as sulphate, and the remainder as muriate. The analytical 

 tables frequently show little or no potash reported as sulphate, al- 

 though the full percentage guaranteed is reported present, and al- 

 though the manufacturer has guaranteed that it was introduced as 



