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The amount of North Carolina fish-scrap bought by the 

 Navassa Guano Company in two years, ending February 5, 

 1885, was about 3,500 bags (140 tons), and they buy most of 

 the scrap made in the State. This will give 1,700 bags (75 

 tons) per annum, w^hich is perhaps rather less than the real 

 production. The true figures will fall not far short of lOO 

 tons. Good scrap should yield 10 per cent, ammonia on 10 

 per cent, water. The account w^ill stand. 



One hundred tons fish scrap lO per cent., a ;^2.50 per unit, 

 ;^2500. About one-third (fA,) of this is made at the mouth 

 of the Cape Fear River, and the other two-thirds on Pam- 

 lico Sound, around Beaufort. The industry might be greatly 

 enlarged, as there is always a good market for the scrap. 



GOTTON SEED OIL MILLS 



There are nine in the State, with a total capacity in seed 

 of 200 tons daily. A ton (2000 lbs.) of seed should yield 

 800 pounds of cake. The cake is worth $2.50 per unit of 

 Ammonia, and should run 8.5 per cent. 



It is not know what proportion of the cake made goes into 

 fertilizers, probably not above 4,000 tons. The product of 

 two average size mills (the Acme and Goldsboro) is almost 

 entirely used in this way. 



PYRITE3. 



None mined for sulphuric acid. All the acid used in the 

 manufacture of the fertilizers is made from Sicily Sulphur. 



BONES. 



Bones are collected, but only in a small way. There is at 

 Salem a small mill for grinding bones, and the Navassa 

 Guano Company buys them from local dealers in small lots. 

 The total quantity is hardly above lOO tons per annum, and 

 so we have lOO tons Bones a ;$io, ;^ 1,000. 



MARL. 



The use of marl is local, and confined almost entirely to 

 the Eastern part of the State. Very little, if any, is shipped 

 by rail, each neighborhood using what is convenient, and 

 easily transported by wagons. This is to be regretted, as 

 the heavy clay soils of the middle part of the State would 

 respond very readily to such an applicatiou. 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 



The most marked feature of the fertilizer trade in North 

 Carolina in 1886, was the increased demand for fine ground 



