CO^IMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. 345 



TENTH ANNUAL REPORT ON COMMERCIAL FERTILTZERS. 



BY PROFESSOR C. A. GOESSMANN, STATE INSPECTOR OF FERTILIZERS. 



Gentlemex : — The trade ia commercial fertilizers has 

 been quite active during the past year. A larger number of 

 manufacturers have entered our markets, in the western and 

 central portion of the State in particular, than in preceding 

 years. The character of the leading standard fertilizers has 

 been but little changed. Wherever changes have been made 

 the tendency has been to increase the potash and to decrease 

 the nitrogen. The stock of fertilizers carried over from 

 1881 to 1882 was quite large, on account of unsatisfactory 

 crops in the South. As the prices of 1881 were exception- 

 ally high, similar high prices ruled during the spring of 

 1882. As the spring trade furnishes by far the larger 

 amount of fertilizer used in the State, the retail prices of my 

 previous report (ninth) have been retained in the valuation 

 of all articles mentioned in the present report. 



Price per pound, 

 in cents. 



Nitrogen. In form of nitric acid, 25 



In form of ammonia, ........ 26 



In form of dried ground meat and blood, finely-pulverized 

 steamed bones, finely-ground fish-guano, Peruvian 

 guano, ui'ates, poudrettes, and artificial guano, . . 24 

 In form of finely-ground bones and bat-guano, . . .22 

 In form of fine-ground horn, wool-dust, etc., . . .15 

 In form of horn-shavings and woollen rags, human excre- 

 tions and barnj^ard-manure, fish-scraps, animal refuse, 

 matter from glue factories and tanneries, etc., . . .12 

 Phosplioric Acid soluble in water. As contained in alkaline 



phosphates and superphosphates, 12.5 



In Peruvian guano and urates, 9 



In form of so-called reduced or reverted acid, ... 9 

 In precipitated bone-phosphate, steamed fine bones, fish- 

 guano, according to size and disintegration, from . . 6 to 8 

 In form of bonc-bhick waste, wood-ash, Carrihean guano, 

 ground-bone ash, coarsely-ground bones, poudrette, barn- 

 yard-manure, etc., 4 



In form of finely-ground South Carolina and Navassa phos- 

 phates, 3 



Potassium Oxide. In form of muriate of potash or chloride of 



potassium, 5 



In form of sulphate of potassa in natural and artificial 



kainits, 5 



In form of higher grades of sulphate of potassa, . . 7 to 7.5 



