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general market. The cause of the war, it is stated, is the 

 taxation of the nitrates of Chilian manufacture by the Bo- 

 livian Government, in violation of an existing commercial 

 treaty between the contending parties, placing the Chilian 

 product at a commercial disadvantage with the nitrates from 

 the mines of Peru, the ally of Bolivia. The extent of the 

 effect of these unfortunate conditions can be well approxi- 

 mated from the circumstance that the exportation of the 

 Chilian sodium nitrate from the port of Autofagasta alone 

 has been, of later years, not less than twelve thousand tons 

 per month. As the stock on hand in our depots at the be- 

 ginning of the war was known to be quite large, the market- 

 price changed but gradually. Our spring supply of Chili 

 saltpetre was obtained at former prices ; i.e., from three cents 

 and a half to four cents per pound: the latest New- York 

 market quotations are, however, from four cents and seven- 

 eighths to five cents and a quarter per pound. It is to be 

 hoped that this valuable resource of nitrogen for agricultural 

 purposes may soon be again within the reach of a remunera- 

 tive farm practice. 



Crude Sulphate of Ammonia. 



(Quinnipiac Fertilizer Co., New Haven, Conn. ; collected of D. A. Horton, 



Northampton, Mass.) ._ 



x er cent. 



Moisture at 100° C. . '. . . . . . 1.50 



Ammonia 24.61 



Sulphuric acid 60.80 



Insoluble matter Trace. 



Our home-supply of ammonium sulphate seems to be 

 increasing from year to year, showing an increased apprecia- 

 tion of the ammonial refuse liquors from gas-houses, and 

 factories of animal charcoal and bone-black, for agricultural 

 purposes. 



Ground Dried Flesh. 

 (Messrs. Baucta & Sons, Philadelphia, Penn.) p 



Moisture at 100° C 8.37 



Organic and volatile matter 89.86 



Ash constituents ....... 10.14 



Sand, &c. . . ' 77 



Phosphoric acid ....... 3.58 



Nitrogen 10.56 



Fat 16.59 



