FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
At these Nottodden works cheap water 
power is to be had, and in many places in 
Sweden power may be produced for the 
very low rate of $3.00 per horse power 
year. 
With the above figures in mind i. e. 
$3.00 worth of power for the production 
of one half ton of nitric acid, it is proven 
that the nitrate of lime as produced at 
Nottodden can successfully compete with 
Chili nitrate of soda at current prices. 
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The Birkeland-Eyde process being 
new, is susceptible to material improve¬ 
ment. 
A new improved plant, recently put up, 
turns out over fifteen hundred pounds of 
nitric acid per killowatt year. 
The much dreaded nitrogen famine so 
often predicted of late years, may in the 
very near future be entirely eliminated 
by electro-thermic methods for the direct 
fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. 
FERTILIZING MATERIALS. 
BY LORENZO A. WILSON 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
The fertilizer question has been so ably 
handled before this Association during its 
nineteen meetings it would appear there 
was very little left to be said regarding it. 
My friend, Mr. Painter has told you some 
of the things he knows on several occa¬ 
sions and has also issued some very intel¬ 
ligent books that nearly all of you have 
read. During the past twelve years I have 
written articles myself, sending them 
broadcast over the State to nearly every 
one of you I think, and there is only left 
for me now the rehashing of the same 
matter. 
There are so many growers in the State 
who have made such a close study of the 
question of plant foods and are so well- 
posted on it that I find it a very difficult 
matter to-day to get a traveling salesman 
to work for me, who knows as much on 
this subject as many members of this As¬ 
sociation do. T have always said it was 
a bad plan to put a fertilizer manufactur¬ 
er on this Committee as it is almost im¬ 
possible for him at times to leave out 
some of the good things he might say of 
his own brands when he writes or talks 
on fertilizers. In the following article I 
have tried to write with the idea before 
me all the time, that I was a fertilizer 
broker in New York, selling materials to 
the manufacturers of Florida. 
First I would like to say that the fer¬ 
tilizer industry has been very thoroughly 
developed in Jacksonville during the past 
two years. To-day the fertilizer factories 
of this city have a capacity for making 
approximately two hundred thousand 
tons of complete goods, if they had the 
market for them the year round, and the 
equipment to move them with. 
PRICES. 
The small growers of Florida buy their 
fertilizers cheaper to-day in this State 
than many of the larger buyers do on 
Long Island, New Jersey or Connecticut 
or Massachusetts. All of this has been 
made possible by the development of the 
fertilizer business in Jacksonville; the 
