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New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 203 
Commercial Fertilizers Sold in New York State. 
During the last two years an effort has been made to deter- 
mine the aggregate sales of the different kinds of fertilizing 
materials annually sold in this State. <A circular letter was 
addressed to the various manufacturers doing business in this 
State, requesting information as to the aggregate of their sales, 
and also the quality of the fertilizers sold, in order that infor- 
mation might be obtained as to the relative consumption of 
phosphoric acid, potash and nitrogen compounds. It ts not 
intended, of course, to make public the details of individual 
business, but to secure such general information concerning this 
trade as would appear to be of value to both manufacturers and 
consumers of these products. 
In the main the manufacturers thus addressed have promptly 
responded to the circular asking for this information. In several 
cases no replies have been received, while in a few cases a fear 
has been expressed lest the information thus given might 
transpire. 
To allay any such fear in the future, and in order that no 
information given in this report can be manipulated in sucha 
way as to enable one manufacturer to approximately estimate 
the sales of another, it is thought best not to indicate in any way 
those manufacturers who have not reported, and to assure those 
who have done so, that so soon as the sales received from them 
have been tabulated, every report has been burned so that there 
does not now exist in possession of the Station any information 
other than that embodied in the following statement: 
‘Aggregate Amounts of Fertilizers Reported as Sold in this 
State During the Year Ending November I, 1893. 
: Tons. 
Complete manuring for spring use ............... 59,578.75 
Complete manuring for fall use.................. 28,950.15 
Ammoniated superphosphates without potash, 
including dissolved bone, etc., for spring use.... 544.56 
Ammoniated superphosphates without potash 
including dissolved bone, etc., for fall use...... 425.50 
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