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composition indicated in the preceding table, could be purchased 
for cash at retail at the seaboard. Knowing the retail prices at 
which these goods were offered for sale, we can also readily 
estimate the difference between the actual selling price of the 
mixed goods and the retail cash cost of the unmixed materials; 
the difference covers the cost of mixing, freight, profits, etc. We 
present these data in the following table: 
COMMERCIAL VALUATION AND SELLING PRICE OF COMPLETE FER- 
TILIZERS. 
Commercial valuation of Selling price of one ton Average in- 
complete fertilizers. of complete fertilizer. creased cost of 
mixed materials 
over unmixed 
; materials for one 
Average. Lowest. | Highest. | Average. ton. 
$19.64 $16 | $60 $26.60 $6.96 
COST OF ONE POUND OF PLANT-FOOD IN FERTILIZERS AS PURCHASED 
BY CONSUMERS. ; 
In the table below we present figures showing the average 
cost to purchaser of one pound of plant-food in different forms 
in mixed fertilizers. 
AVERAGE Cost oF ONE PouNpD or PuLANT-Foop to CONSUMERS IN 
MIxep FERTILIZERS. 
Je PTE C0 S210 ee Le CRA Sr Lee Ree ee 23.00 cents. 
Phosphoric acid (available)............. 5.75 cents. 
J ECG ICIS SA epee Ay eae Cree eRe eg Oe Sn ee Mea Vee 6.10 cents. 
NEW FERTILIZER LAW. 
The State legislature amended the fertilizer law in 1899 and 
attention is called to the principal changes that affect manufac- 
turers and. dealers. 
(1) All fertilizers selling for five dollars or more per ton come 
under the law. 
(2) Every manufacturer, importer, dealer or agent must pay 
a license fee amounting to twenty dollars a year for each separate 
brand or kind of fertilizer or fertilizing material. 
(3) Statements of guarantee analysis, etc., are to be filed and 
license fees paid during December each year covering the goods 
to be sold during the year following. 
