STATISTICAL TABLES. 



447 



THE FERTILIZER INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED 



STATES. (U. S. Department of Agriculture,) 



IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF FERTILIZERS IN 



1896. (U. S. Treasury Department.) 



IMPORTS 



FERTILIZERS AND 

 MATERIALS, 1896. 



FERTILIZER 



Articles. 



Ammonia, sulfate of 



Apatite .. 



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



Blood, dried ... . . 



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



fit 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 



2,983.00 



325 



5.^-72 



67,192 



21,403 

 8.911 



20,562 



43,438 



7.423 



145.456 



40,259 



375.733-93 



Value. 



$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 



$7,376,615 



Value 

 per Ton. 



$39.20 

 6.98 



12.74 



9-74 

 10.39 



4-77 

 3-57 

 5-93 

 7.46 

 31.60 



36.34 

 26.61 



"•43 



$1964 



* T.n 



