THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 18, 
116 
FERTILIZERS IN TEXAS. 
J. TF. <S'., Mexia, Texas .—The subject o! 
commercial fertilizers in our country is a 
new one, and we have to study the business 
from the beginning. What is the analysis of 
good cotton-seed meal? What per cent of pure 
potash is there in sulphate and muriate of 
potash? What does kainit analyze? What 
is the value of those goods per ton? Where 
is acid phosphate obtained? What does it 
consist of? What per cent of phosphoric 
acid, and what does it cost? Can it be 
bought already dissolved with sulphuric acid 
ready for mixing with other matter? Cot¬ 
ton-seed meal costs us here at home from 
$18 to $20 per ton. Could we not use 
it as a basis for nitrogen, buy acid phosphate 
and sulphate of potash, and produce as good, 
if not better, fertilizer by mixing at home, 
at a less cost, than we can buy the ready 
mixed goods on Ihe market? Please explain 
the table of analysis of the fertilizers men¬ 
tioned below. It is quoted to us at $28 per 
ton. Is it worth it? What does potash fol¬ 
lowed by a chemical sign, K-2-0. stand for: 
Are there no bulletins published about fer¬ 
tilizers, their compositions and values? 
No. 1. Price $28.' 
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS (2%-9-3). 
Nitrogen . 2.03 to 2.88 
Ammonia . 2.5 to 3.5 
Phosphoric Acid, Total. 11 to 12 
Phosphoric Acid, Available... 0 to 11 
Phos. Acid, Water Soluble.... 6.5 to 8.5 
Potash . 3 to 4 
No. 2. Price $30. 
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS (3V 2 -9-3). 
Nitrogen . 2.88 to 3.70 
Ammonia . 3.5 to 4.5 
Phosphoric Acid, Total. 19 to 12 
Phosphoric Acid, Available. .. 8 to 10 
Phos. Acid. Water Soluble.... 0 1o 8 
Potash from Sulphate. 7.40 to 9.25 
Potash . 4 to 5 
Ans. —You should read bulletin No. 70 
from the Texas Experiment Station, at 
College Station; also bulletins from 
Georgia (Experiment P. O.), Louisiana 
(Baton Rouge), Alabama (Auburn), Ar¬ 
kansas (Fayetteville). Analyses of some 
of the articles you mention are given be¬ 
low. The cotton-seed meal is the aver¬ 
age of 204 analyses: 
Pounds in One Ton. 
Phos. 
Nitrogen. 
Acid. Potash. 
Got ion-seed meal. . 
... 135 
58 35 
Sulphate potash..., 
, . . 
1,000 
Muriate potash.... 
1,000 
Kainit .. 
250 
Acid phosphate... 
Nitrate of soda... 
’. ’ 360 
280 
Ground bone. 
70 
500 
Acid phosphate is the phosphate rock 
first ground to a fine powder and then 
mixed with sulphuric acid. This “cuts” 
or dissolves the ground rock and leaves 
it soluble in water. It is usually sold in 
the acid form, for the raw ground 
rock has little value as a fertilizer. You 
can use the cotton-seed meal with potash 
and acid phosphate to make a fertilizer 
which may be better or not so good as 
the mixture you would buy. That will de¬ 
pend upon what is used in making the 
other fertilizers. If the manufacturers use 
dried blood and nitrate of soda in addi¬ 
tion to cotton-seed meal their mixture 
may be better than yours, because the ni¬ 
trogen is taken from three different 
sources. The chances are that what you 
would buy would be about the same as 
you would mix, and you can figure and 
see how much you can save by mixing. 
Take the analysis of the mixture (No. l) 
you mention as an illustration. They 
guarantee you 2.05 per cent or 41 pounds 
of nitrogen, nine per cent or 180 pounds 
available phosphoric acid, and three per 
cent or 60 pounds of potash. This costs 
you $28 per ton. Now, if your cotton¬ 
seed meal costs you $20 a ton, and the 
average analysis is as given in our table, 
you will see that 650 pounds of the meal, 
costing $6.50, will give you 43 pounds of 
nitrogen, 18 of phosphoric acid, and 11 
pounds of potash. You will need to fur¬ 
nish the plant food found in the ton of 
fertilizer, 162 pounds of phosphoric acid 
and 49 pounds of potash. It will require 
about 1,250 pounds of acid phosphate to 
furnish this, and 100 pounds of muriate 
or sulphate to furnish the potash. What 
will these cost? In the Texas bulletin 
already mentioned you will find a state¬ 
ment that the average cost of phosphoric 
acid was seven cents, and of potash six 
cents. This means that taking the average 
prices charged for acid phosphate and for 
potash that is what vou would have to 
pay. At this rate the cost of your mix¬ 
ture would be: 650 pounds cotton-seed 
meal, $6.50; 1,250 pounds acid phosphate, 
$11.34; 100 pounds potash muriate, $3; 
total, $20.84. Before you try this mixing 
find what potash and phosphoric acid 
will cost. To do this get prices in New 
Orleans or Galveston on muriate of pot¬ 
ash and acid phosphate with guaranteed 
analysis on the latter. If the muriate 
costs you $60 per ton one pound costs you 
three cents, if the acid phosphate is guar¬ 
anteed to contain 14 per cent phosphoric 
acid divide the cost by 280 and you have 
the price per pound. With these figures 
you can see how much you can save by 
mixing. You will notice in the No. 2 
fertilizer that you cannot duplicate it by 
mixing meal, phosphate and potash. You 
must have stronger chemicals. The man¬ 
ufacturers do this by using nitrate of soda 
to supply some of the nitrogen, and 
ground bone to provide some of the 
phosphoric acid. 
A brief explanation of one of these 
analyses may be given as follows: Al¬ 
ways figure on the smallest amount actu¬ 
ally guaranteed. Nitrogen we understand. 
Ammonia is a combination of nitrogen and 
another substance called hydrogen. Pay 
no attention to it in figuring. It only 
means that there is enough nitrogen pres¬ 
ent to make that much ammonia. Phos¬ 
phoric acid is found in three different 
forms, as explained in another article. 
What you want to consider and pay for 
is the part guaranteed as “available”; that 
is, in such form that the plants can use 
it. Pay no attention to the “total.” K 
is the letter used by chemists to designate 
the metal potassium, while O represents 
oxygen. In its pure form potassium would 
not be available to plants, but when two 
parts of it are combined with one part 
of oxygen the combination is called pot¬ 
ash, and in this form is used as a fer¬ 
tilizer. These letters are useful as prov¬ 
ing just what the manufacturer guaran¬ 
tees. 
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