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VIII. SCHEDULE FOR THE VALUATION OF FERTILISERS 



The following is the schedule of prices adopted by agreement by the 

 Experiment Stations of the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New 

 Jersey, and Rhode Island, to be used in the valuation of fertilisers for the 

 year 1906: 



Cents per pound 



Nitrogen in ammonium salts 17.5 



Nitrogen in nitrates 16.5 



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



in mixed fertilisers .' 18.5 



Organic nitrogen in fine bone and tankage 18.0 



Organic nitrogen in coarse bone and tankage 13.0 



Phosphoric acid, soluble in water 4.5 



Phosphoric acid, soluble in ammonium citrate 4.0 



Phosphoric acid in fine-ground fish, bone, and tankage ... 4.0 



Phosphoric acid in coarse fish, bone, and tankage 3.0 



Phosphoric acid in mixed fertilisers, if insoluble in water and in am- 

 monium citrate 2.0 



Phosphoric acid in cottonseed meal, castor pomace, and wood ashes 4.0 

 Potash in high-grade sulphate, and in forms free from muriate (or 



chlorids) 5.0 



Potash as muriate 4} 



