32 GRASS GROWING FOR PROFIT 
This table enables one to compare commercial 
quotations with accuracy. The figures themselves 
are not quotations in any sense of the word, and all 
the figures of the table refer to only one grade of 
Nitrate of Soda, namely: that containing 15.65 per 
cent. of Nitrogen. 
THE COST OF NITRATE OF SODA, ITS USE MORE 
PROFITABLE THAN EVER 
The steady upward movement in prices of 
Nitrate of Soda has been attracting widespread atten- 
tion, and the uninterrupted gradual rise in prices is 
warranted, based on solid facts which govern the 
industry. Labor troubles and the extra cost of pro- 
duction, together with the steady increase in the con- 
sumption, have been and are factors in the situation. 
The increase in the consumption in this country has 
been heavy. 
The consumption all over the world for agricul- 
tural purposes has expanded at a very great rate 
lately, and perhaps more particularly in this country 
in the cotton belt than anywhere else. Production 
is likely to expand so as to fully meet the fresh 
demand as rapidly as the supply of labor can be pro- 
vided for on the west coast of Chile. 
Many observers of the ammoniate market for 
the past years have asserted that there are not 
enough ammoniates annually produced to meet the 
consumptive requirements, and the tendency on the 
part of some fertilizer manufacturers is to make 
lower grade goods as to Nitrogen; a policy which 
seem to have an invariably disastrous effect on those 
who follow it. 
