phosphate in New York remained at $18.00 per ton from 

 February, 1918, to October of the same year. In Novem- 

 ber the average quotation was $17.67, from December to 

 February it was $17.00, in March, $16.87, and in April, 

 $16.22, the same prices prevailing on May 1. The average 

 retail price per ton as reported by the county agents in the 

 New England States was $29.50. The New Hampshire in- 

 spector collected five samples of 16% acid phosphate on 

 which the retail price per ton varied as follows: $26.00, 

 $32.00, $33.00, $35.00 and $40.00. The average price of 

 these five samples was $33.00 per ton. The report does not 

 give figures for New Hampshire but gives the average retail 

 price per ton of 16% acid phosphate for three other New 

 England states as follows : Vermont, $27.50, Massachusetts, 

 $29.50, and Connecticut, $30.00. These figures indicate 

 that most New Hampshire consumers paid too high a price 

 for acid phosphate. To further illustrate that the con- 

 sumer of commercial fertilizers must exercise care in buy- 

 ing, the following retail prices per ton of the five samples 

 of dried pulverized sheep manure collected this year are 

 given as follows: $50.00, $53.00, $60.00, $68.00, $70.00. 

 Comparing the above extreme prices with the figures ob- 

 tained by the analysis of the respective samples it is found 

 that the sample which retailed at $50.00 per ton actually 

 contained about 15% more of nitrogen, of total phosphoric 

 acid and of water soluble potash than the sample which 

 retailed at $70.00 per ton. 



Regarding the price of fertilizers for the immediate fu- 

 ture the United States Department of Agriculture has 

 made the announcement under date of June 18, 1919, that 

 consumers of fertilizers should be able to obtain their mixed 

 fertilizers for the fall season of 1919 at an average price of 

 about 30% lower than the prices which prevailed for the 

 spring season just passed. 



Table I shows maximum f. o. b. prices at which the prin- 

 cipal fertilizer grades should be obtained by dealers, or by 

 consumers ordering 30-ton lots, at the three great centers 

 for fertilizer distribution, viz. : Carteret, N. J., Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., and Baltimore, Md. 



TABLE I. 



The United States Department of Agriculture reports 

 the following maximum f. o. b. prices at which principal 

 grades of fertilizers might be obtained in 30-ton lots at 

 three trade centers.* 



