INSPECTION OF COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS 



Samples of the following brands were not drawn as they were not found on 

 display by our sampling agents. 



Brands of Fertilizer Registered but Not Sampled. 



Manufacturer and Brand. 



Manufacturer and Brand. 



Armour Fertilizer Worlss 



Armours Big Crop Fertilizers 2-12-4 

 .Armours Big Crop Fertilizers 5-8-10 

 Fish (9-6-0) 



Ashcraft-Wilkinson Co. 



Monarch Brand Cotton Seed Meal (6.88-0-0) 



Bisbee Linseed Co. 



Bisbee Brand 34^0 Protein Pure Old Process 

 Linseed Meal (5-0-0) 



Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. 



Buckeye 41% Protein Prime Cottonseed 

 Meal (6.56-0-0) 



Cairo Meal & Cake Co. 



Miss Cairo Brand 41% Prime Cottonseed 

 Meal (6.58-0-0) 



Collins Seed Service Co. 



Complete Grass Manure 6-8-1 



Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Inc. 



Castor Pomace (4.62-0-0) 



Shelton Co., Inc. 



Golden Gate Sheep Manure (1-1-1) 



Standard Wholesale Phosphate 

 Works, Inc. 



Standard United States 3 x 12 x 5 

 Standard United States 4x8x7 

 Standard United States 4 x 8 x 10 

 Standard United States 5x8x5 

 Standard United States 6x3x6 



Drawing of Samples. 



Between April 1 and June 15, four sampling agents made a thorough canvass 

 of the state: James T. Howard in Hampshire, Hampden, Franklin, and Berkshire 

 counties; A. G. Brigham in Worcester County; G. E. Taylor in Norfolk, Bristol, 

 Plymouth, Barnstable, and Dukes counties; and C. L. Whiting in Essex, Middle- 

 sex, and Suffolk counties. They visited 202 towns, took 1,688 samples, repre- 

 senting 421 brands, from stock in the possession of 550 agents or owners, and 

 called upon 285 agents where no samples were drawn because the agency had 

 been discontinued, the stock was all sold out, or sufficient samples had already 

 been taken of the brands found. They sampled 17,935 sacks representing 7,433 

 tons of fertilizer. One ton was sampled to every seven and seven-eighths tons 

 sold in the state. 



COMPARATIVE COST OF FERTILIZER CHEMICALS AND UNMIXED 

 FERTILIZER PRODUCTS. 



The price of both ammonium sulfate and sodium nitrate has advanced during 

 the year and while the former has held steady at the advanced price, the latter 

 salt has shown a decline of about $1 per ton from the six months' average ending 

 March 1, 1934. Calcium nitrate and potassium nitrate have sold for somewhat 

 less per ton in 1934 than during the previous year: the latter salt was quoted at 

 $5.65 per ton less on September 24 than for the six months' average ending 

 March 1. Most of the organic ammoniates have shown a decided advance in 

 price over 1933, and with the exception of synthetic urea and dry ground fish 

 had shown no decline in price on September 24, 1934. 



Superphosphate has shown a small but consistent advance in price during the 

 season. 



All potash salts have shown a decline in price during the season, ranging from 

 $2.50 per ton in case of sulfate of potash-magnesia, to over $15 per ton in case of 

 muriate. 



In view of the above it seems quite likely that the price of mixed fertilizers 

 for 1935 will be somewhat lower than during the past season. 



The following table gives average quotations taken from the Oil, Paint and 

 Drug Reporter and Chemical Markets. 



