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176 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE 
The attendance upon the course was limited in number, but 
representatives from different portions of the State and several of 
the neighboring States and the Province of Ontario were present, 
and’ great interest was manifested in the proceedings during the 
entire course by those who were so fortunate as to avail themselves 
of the opportunity thus afforded them for advanced instruction by 
- competent authorities in the several branches of practical and — 
applied science pertaining to the dairy industry. 
CoMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS SoLp IN NEw York Strate. 
While it is well known that the aggregate consumption of com- 
mercial fertilizers in the State reaches large proportions, there has 
been no serious effort made to determine, even approximately, the 
extent of the sales. While the excellence of barn-yard manure is — 
everywhere admitted, chemical manure is found to supplement it 
most completely, and where there is a choice of purchasing 
between the two, there are many who buy the latter as being the 
cheapest. It is believed to be of public interest to determine the 
amount of those sales not only, but so far as possible the character 
of the fertilizers sold. 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 information might be obtained 
as to the relative consumption of phosphoric acid, potash and ~ 
nitrogen compounds. It is 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 yalue to both manufacturers and consumers of these products. 
Nearly every one of the manufacturers addressed promptly 
responded to the circular asking for information. A list of these 
manufacturers is given for the purpose of showing how exhaustive 
and reliable the statistics collected are, and the aggregate of the 
sales reported given in the table following is about 90,338 : 
Names oF FEerTinizER MANUFACTURERS WHO HAVE REPORTED THEIR 
SALES FOR THE YEAR ENDING NovEMBER 1, 1891. 
Allentown Manufacturing Co., Allentown, Penn. 
Armour & Co., Chicago, IL 
H. J. Baker & Brother, 215 Pearl street, New York, N. Y. . 

