THE DEALERS' PRICES. 



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securing from one hundred and sixty to two hundred pounds 

 of potassium oxide, cannot be the best course to obtain a 

 suitable supply. There are other points besides first cost which 

 the farmer has to consider when he proposes to utilize the 

 German potash salts. It has been well proved that the form 

 in which the potassium is present — whether as potassium 

 chloride or as potassium sulphate — as well as the peculiar 

 nature and the amount of the compounds which usually accom- 

 pany the potassium in its natural state, control, to a great 

 extent, their action on various crops and upon different kinds 

 of soil. 



As these points are apparently not yet sufficiently appre- 

 ciated on the part of dealers and farmers — judging from 

 numerous inquiries received during the past year — I beg leave 

 to insert here a few statements which may prove acceptable 

 to both parties. Two extensive manufacturing establishments 

 at the seat of the potash industry at Stassfurt, Germany, offer 

 their potash fertilizer at the following terms (1874) : — 



Circular No. 1. — Of Stassfurt Dealers. 



Note. — " The prices stated apply to quantities not less than twenty-five 

 tons of any one kind, including bags, at Hamburg or Bremerhafen. 

 The samples for analysis are taken on board of vessel by Dr. G. L. Ulex, 

 of Hamburg, and his results are guaranteed in the sale. The articles are 

 exported in bags, containing 200 pounds each ; the freight, by sailing- 

 vessel, to New York, amounts to from five to eight shillings (sterling) 

 per ton." 



