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phosphoric acid, and 4} cents a pound for potash, we can cal- 
culate the commercial valuation, er the price at which the 
separate unmixed materials contained in one ton of fertilizer, 
having the composition indicated in the preceding table, could 
be purchased for cash at retail at the seaboard. Knowing the 
retail prices at which these goods were offered for sale, we can 
also readily estimate the difference between the actual selling 
price of the mixed goods and the retail cash cost of the unmixed 
materials; the difference covers the cost of mixing, freight, a 
etc. We present these data in the following tables: 
COMMERCIAL VALUATION AND SELLING PRICE OF COMPLETE FERTILIZERS. 
Average in- 
Commercial valuation of Selling price of one ton of creased cost of 
complete fertilizers. complete fertilizer. mixed materials, 
iota en hee over unmixed 
Average Lowest. Highest. Average. materials for one 
ton. 
$19.72 $15 _ $60 — $27.27 $7.55 
COST OF OND POUND OF PLANT FOOD IN FERTILIZERS AS PURCHASED 
BY CONSUMERS, 
In the table below we present figures showing the average cost 
to the purchaser of one pound of plant-food in different forms in 
mixed fertilizers. 
AVERAGE CosT OF ONE POUND OF PLANT-FOOD TO CONSUMERS IN MIXED 
FERTILIZERS. 
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NEW FERTILIZER LAW. 
The State legislature amended the fertilizer law in 1899 and 
attention is called to the principal changes that affect manufac- 
turers and dealers. 
(1) All fertilizers selling for fie dollars or more per ton will 
come under the law, the limit previously having been confined 
to fertilizers seling for ten dollars or more per ton. 
(2) Every manufacturer, importer, dealer or agent must pay 
