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products, which it is generally believed are employed by certain 
parties. However, it by no means follows that a good dollar is 
wor:h more because worthless counterfeits have often been passed 
in their place. 
If we take the average composition of the 330 fertilizers 
analyzed we shall find that it was as follows, each ton contain- 
ing 1.991 per cent of nitrogen, or 39.82 pounds; 9.310 per cent of 
available phosphoric acid, or 186.20 pounds; 3.353 per cent of 
potash, or 67.06 pounds. 
Each year a company of leading chemists, officially charged 
with the chemical inspection of commercial fertilizers sold in 
_ their respective States, meet and adjust a scale of prices for the 
several valuable fertilizing constituents. 
These prices fixed upon by this body are simply the prices 
which they find these several constituents have in the leading 
markets, and their method is entirely in accord with that by 
which the prices in our markets of the several farm products, as 
corn, wheat or potatoes are secured, or the published quotations 
of the stock exchange. 
The following is the list of prices adopted by this body of men 
for the preceeding and current year: 
TrapE Vaturs oF Fertitizing I[NeREpIENTS IN Raw MareriAts 
AND CHEMICALS, ADOPTED BY EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 
1892. 1893. 
Cts. per Cts. per 
pound. pound, 
Pe eomenan/ AMMONIA SALES)... oes vies Savece ga nee oem bE ia iow OY 
EMIT TILLALOS. 2 eee eed asl t\< aly 41510 a4 he Smog 15 154 
Organic nitrogen in dry and fine ground fish, meat 
and blood, and in high grade mixed fertilizers... 16 174 
Organic nitrogen in cotton-seed meal and castor- 
I Cee eRe Aer AT Crauay Rabe Soe RA ale tle, tlets 15 164 
_ Organic nitrogen in fine ground bone and tankage, 15 15 
Organic nitrogen in fine proud medium. bone and 
Batkape eee thar ens. a eae ere aoe 12 12 
Organic nitrogen in medium bone and tankage .. 94 Dh 
Organic nitrogen in coarse bone and tankage...... 74 7 
Organic aropen in hair, horn shavings and coarse 
oo SEE Bata gyi has MARNE eri Ma tg aU a er 7 7 
