Purchasing Fertilizers in New Hampshire 



Table 3. — Number of Different Analyses Reported As Sold in New Hampshire 



Over a Four-Year Period* 



1939-40 1940-41 1941-42 



1942-43 



No. mixed fertilizer analyses reported 20 



No. reported: all four years for three years 



45 45 36 



for two years one year only 



19 



13 



13 



22 



* From data furnished by Ford Prince, Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Mixed Fertilizer Analyses Sold in Largest Quantities 



During the four years, 1940-1943, more of the 5-8-7 analysis was 

 sold than of any other. About 21 per cent of the number of analyses, 

 for which sales were 1000 tons or more in that period, accounted for 84 

 per cent of all sales of mixed fertilizer in the state. (See Figure 6.) 



Sales of Mixed Fertilizers of Low and High Analyses 



Sixtv-eight per cent of the number of analyses of mixed fertilizers 

 for which sales were reported in the state in the 1940-1943 period con- 

 tained less than 25 units of chemicals and they accounted for 76 per cent 

 of the total tonnage sold in that period. Seventeen per cent of the num- 

 ber of analyses offered contained 35 units or more, and they accounted 

 for 14 per cent of total tonnage. The number of analyses grouped ac- 

 cording to units of chemicals contained therein and the tonnage sold are 

 shown in Table 4. 



TONS 



7000 r-i 



6000 



5000 



4000 



3000 



2000 



1000 



Figure 6. — Sales of mixed fertilizers in New Hampshire 



Largest selling analyses for the four-year period of 1940-1943 



