816 ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



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



Cents per pound. 



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Nitrogen: 



In ammonia salts 



In nitrates 



In dry and fine ground fish, 



In meat, blood and mixed fertilizer 



In fine ground bone and tankage, 



In coarse bone and tankage 



Phosphoric acid: 



Water soluble 



Citrate soluble 



In cotton seed meal, castor pomace, fine ground fish and wood 



ashes, 



In fine bone and tankage, 



In coarse bone and tankage, 



In mixed fertilizers, Insoluble 



Potash : 



In forms free from muriate 



As muriate, 



100 



106. 'J 



105.7 



105.7 



105.9 



104 



100 



100 

 100 

 100 

 100 



100 

 100 



'Except In New Jersey, where owing to the legal requirements of methods which Indicate a 

 less quantity of citrate soluble than is obtained by use of the official method a valuation of 4% 

 cents per pound has been adopted. 



In view of the various facts set forth in the foregoing paragraphs, 

 the schedule adopted for use in New England and New Jersey for 

 the current year has been adopted for use in Pennsylvania also, 

 except with respect to dissolved phosphate rock and ground bones. 



For these two classes of fertilizers it is needful, as has been re- 

 peatedly set forth, to adopt independent valuations for this Com- 

 monwealth. The wholesale market having exhibited no change in 

 the cost of phosphate rock and sulphuric acid, the raw materials 

 used in making dissolved rock phosphates, and the valuations under 

 the schedule of 1904 having agreed well with the selling prices of 

 that year, little change seems needful with respect to these goods. 

 In view of the upward tendencies exhibited by the ammoniate mar- 

 ket, the valuations for nitrogen in ground bone are slightly raised. 



The schedule for 1905 as a whole is as follows: 



