PRICES OF PLANT FOODS. 



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the prices of plant foods has in the main been down- 

 ward, and favorable to the user. The recent dis- 

 coveries of new and extensive deposits of phosphates 

 in Florida and other points, and other circumstances, 

 lead me to hope for a further reduction in the price 

 of such phosphates, and perhaps also of nitrogen. 



Some of the Agricultural Experiment Stations 

 occasionally get together, and agree on a " Schedule 

 of valuations" of plant foods, to serve as a basis for 

 the determination of the value of any given fertili- 

 zer for a certain period of time. The rates thus 

 agreed upon, however, often are considerably at 

 variance with the manufacturers' actual average 

 retail, prices. A comparison of these with the 

 stations' schedule of prices, both for the year 1890, 

 is given in the following 



TABLE OF values: 



An inspection of the prices in the above table 

 shows us that the market and the stations look at 



