FERTILIZERS AND AGRICULTURAL LIME 

 Serious Commercial Shortages in Mixed Fertilizers 



Amount of Shortage Per Ton. 



Number of Samples 



Between $4 and $5 

 Between S3 and $4 

 Between $2 and $3 

 Between $1 and $2 



Of the 299 brands analyzed, 182, or 61 per cent, showed no deficiencies, 

 of 917 plant food guarantees made, 85 per cent were fully maintained. 

 The deficiency table shows the following statistics: 



Out 



Deficiencies not exceeding 34 of one per cent, 92 

 Deficiencies between }/i and Yi of one per cent, 21 

 Deficiencies between J/£ and % of one per cent, 8 

 Deficiencies more than % of one per cent, 14 



Seventeen firms have registered five or more brands of mixed fertilizers. On 

 the basis of composition found by analysis as well as of tonnage sold, the following 

 table shows to what extent each manufacturer was successful in avoiding defi- 

 ciencies in plant food guarantees in his mixtures. Four of the seventeen firms 

 have an average deficiency in one or more plant food elements. 



Average Variation from Guaranteed Analysis 



Manufacturer 



Average Percentage of Plant Food 

 Above or Below the Minimum Guarantee 



Nitrogen 



Available 



Phosphoric 



Acid 



Water 

 Soluble 

 Potash 



Acme Guano Co 



American Agricultural Chemical Co. 



Apothecaries Hall Co 



Armour Fertilizer Works 



Baugh & Sons Co. 



Berkshire Chemical Co 



Consolidated Rendering Co 



Eastern States Farmers' Exchange 



Thomas W. Emerson Co 



International Agricultural Corp. 

 Old Deerfield Fertilizer Co., Inc. 



Olds & Whipple, Inc 



Organo, Inc 



Rogers & Hubbard Co. 



Standard Wholesale Phosphate & Acid Works, 



Inc 



Swift & Company Fertilizer Works . 

 Woodruff Fertilizer Works, Inc. 



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— .04 

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— .21 

 + 



— .06 



— .19 



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+ 



.07 



