New YorK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 411 
COMPARISON OF SELLING PRICE AND COMMERCIAL VALUATION. 
Giving to the different constituents the values assigned in the 
schedule for mixed fertilizers, 1614 cents a pound for nitrogen, 
5 cents a pound for water-soluble phosphoric acid, 414 cents 
a pound for citrate-soluble phosphoric acid, 2 cents a pound for 
insoluble phosphoric acid, and 414 cents a pound for potash, we 
can calculate the commercial valuation, or the price at which 
the separate unmixed materials contained in one ton of fertil- 
izer, 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 
tuunixed materials; the difference covers the cost of mixing, 
freight, profits, etc. We present these data in the following 
table: 
COMMERCIAL VALUATION AND SBHLLING PRICE OF COMPLETE 







FERTILIZERS. 
COMMERCIAL VALUATION SELLING PRicE oF ONE TON OF | , . Average 
oF ComPLETE FERTILIZERS. COMPLETE FERTILIZER. | increased cost of 
He] | mixed materials 
— | — HH — over unmixed 
{ | material, for one 
Average. Lowest. Highest. Average. | ton. 
| 
$20 76 $16 00 $44 00 | $26 14 $5 38 





COST OF ONE POUND Of PLANT-FOOD IN FERTILIZERS AS PURCHASED BY 
CONSU MERS. 
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 PounpD or PLANtT-Foop To CONSUMERS IN 
MixEep Fertilizers. 
Lea ipa: (| gt eee. ere oe, Leer eee . 20.8 cents. 
Phosphoric acid (available) ........ eer aL Celta. 
DEA Bl es Ps Sima eee es Suis eons a SSE mee oe tor Oe ( CELLS: 
