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TRADE VALUP:S 



OF FERTILIZING INGREDIENTS IN RAW MATERIALS 



AND CHEMICALS. 



1896. 



Cents per pound. 



Nitrogen in ammonia salts, 15. 



" " nitrates, 13.5 



Organic nitrogen in dry and fine ground fish, meat, blood, 



and in high-grade mixed fertilizers, 14. 

 *' " " cotton-seed meal, 12. 



" " " fine ground bone iiud tankage, 13.5 



" "• " fine ground medium bone and tankage, 12. 



" " " medium bone and tankage, 9. 



" " " coarse bone and tankage, 3. 



" " '' hair, horn-shavings and coarse fish 



scraps, 3. 



Phosphoric acid soluble in water, 5.5 



" " soluble in ammonium citrate, 5. 



" " in fine bone and tankage, 5. 



** " in fine medium bone and tankage, 4. 



*' " in medium bone and tankage, 2.5 



" " in coarse bone and tankage, 2. 



" " in fine ground fish, cotton-seed meal, linseed 



meal, castor pomace and wood ashes, 4.5 

 >' •" insoluble (in am. cit.) in mixed fertilizers, 2. 



Potush as High Grade Sulphate, and in mixtures free from 



Muriate, 5. 



" '' Muriate, 4.5 



The manurial constituents contained in feedstuffs are valued as 

 follows : 

 Organic Nitrogen, 12. 



Phosphoric acid, 4.5 



Potash, 5. 



The above trade v. dues are the figures at which, in the six months 

 preceding March, 1<S9G, the respective ingredients could be bought 

 at retail for c-t.s7i ui our large markefs, hi the raw materials, which are 

 the regular source of su|)ply. 



Amherst, Mass., August 1st, 189G. 



