STATISTICAL TABLES. 



399 



THE FJERTILiIZER INDUSTRY OP THE UNITED 



STATES. (U. S. Dkpartment of Agriculture.) 



IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF FERTILIZERS IN 



1896. (U. S. Treasury Department.) 



IMPORTS OF FERTILIZERS AND FERTILIZER 

 3IATERIALS, 1896. 



Articles. 



Ammonia, sulfate of 



Apatite .. 



Ashes, wood and lye of, and beet-root ashes 



Blood, dried 



Bone-dust or animal carbon, and bone-ash, 



tit only for fertilizing' purposes 



Bones, crude, burned, calcined, ground or 



steamed 



Cotton-seed meal and cake 



Guano 



Kieserite, cyanite, and kainit 



Lime 



Oil-cake 



Phosphates, crude or native 



Potash, muriate of 



Potash, sulfate of 



Soda, nitrate of, or cubic nitrate 



All substances, not otherwise specified . 

 Total 



Tons. 



12,270.70 

 434.00 



325.6 



5,072.29 



67,192.9 



21,403.02 



8,911.50 



20,562.29 



43,438.35 



7,423-67 



145,456.64 



40.259.9 5 



375-733-<^2 



Value. „ Value 

 per Ton. 



$480,971 

 3,030 



67,394 

 1,014* 



37.992 



154.610 



3-170 



52-697 



320,765 



76,302 



52,867 



153,370 



',372,743 



269,810 



3,870,734 



460,160 



$7^6,675 



$39.20 

 6.9C 



9-7A 

 10.39 



4.77 



3-57 



5.93 



7.46 



31. 60 



36.34 



26.61 



"-43 



$19 04 



In 1895. 



