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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



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

 peculiar conditions of our markets have been made the valuations 

 diverge too largel}^ from the actual selling prices, as in the case of 

 ground bone and dissolved rock phosphates. The schedules for these 

 States for 1914 and 1915 are as follows: 



Trade Values Adopted by the New England States and New Jersey 



Nitrogen : 



In nitratos [ 16J 15 90.0 



In ammonium salts 161 i 15J. 93.9 



In dry and flne ground fish and blood 221 22 27.7 



In fine hone and tankage 2l| 21 97.6 



In coarse bone and tanliage ITJ 17 97.2 



In mixed fertilizers 19J 19 97.5 



Phosphorip acid: 



Water soluble 4| 4 88.9 



Citrate soluble 4 3} fn.S 



In fine ground bone and tankage, 4 4 100.0 



In coarse bone and tankage, ^ 3J 100.0 



In mixed fertilizers, insoluble, 2 2 100.0 



Potasb: 



In forms free from muriate, 5 ■ % 190.0 



As muriate 4 8i 212.6 



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 1914 are continued for use during the pres- 

 ent 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 liigher 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 been pur- 

 chased at what are virtually jo'b'bers' prices plus freight, and to adopt 

 corresponding pound values. In the case, hoivever, of potash and 

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

 fore, upon the assumed basis of sale on time, in small quantities and 

 through local dealers. 



