To illustrate the significance and application of the new plan and figures suppose an acid phosphate on sale at Wilmington contains 12 per cent. of soluble and reverted phosphoric acid (which together are called "available"). 12 pounds in 100 is 250 pounds in a ton. Multiply 250 by 73 cents, the figure for one pound "available," and you get $18.75 as the cash value of the article at retail. Now this signifies that the man who pays cash can get that article at Wilmington at that price, the way the market stands at present. Or, supposing the freight to Charlotte is $2.50, the man who pays cash in Charlotte can get that article at $21.25, which is the Wilmington cash value with freight added. This must not be understood as applicable to any but cash purchasers. On the one hand, the man who buys largely, or offers other inducements, will get his fertilizer cheaper. On the other, the farmer who promises to pay in a fluctuating staple next November, must expect to pay considerable money in addition for the time and risk. The Station made 223 analyses of samples of commercial fertilizers during 1886. Some of these were farmers' samples. This is nearly 2 analyses of each brand sold in the State that year. This does not include the analyses of phosphates, agricultural chemicals, or other ingredients of fertilizers. The analyses in the following tables were all made on samples drawn according to law by the special agents of the Department of Agriculture from new lots of goods received in the State after the beginning of the new year. On the even pages will be found a list of fertilizers licensed to be sold in the State during the year, with the addresses of the manufacturers or general agents. On the page opposite the name is the analysis and relative valuation of the fertilizer. In many instances, several analyses are given for one brand. In most cases the analyses agree fairly well, and thus reflect credit upon their makers. In other cases, resulting probably from carelessness in mixing, or some mistake in bagging or ship ping, the samples differed somewhat in character, and as it was impossible to ascertain which one of them correctly represented the true character of the goods of this name on sale in the State, the varying analyses are all published. The water given is that lost by continual heating at the temperature of boiling water. The insoluble phosphoric acid is that contained in phosphates which fail to dissolve in neutral ammonium citrate solution (sp. gr. 1.09) by the method of the Association Official Agricultural Chemists. The soluble phosphoric acid is that free or in form of phosphates (generally the one-lime phosphate or acid phosphate of lime), soluble in pure cold water. The "reverted" is that insoluble in water, but dissolving in neutral standard ammonium citrate solution. This is all that the term reverted signifies here, and it is used simply to stand for the phrase, "insoluble in pure water, but soluble in standard ammonium citrate solution under the standard conditions." It is generally agreed that it is within the power of plants to take up directly the phosphates so dissolving, or in other words, that these phosphates are "available." The total "available phosphoric" acid is simply the sum of the soluble and "reverted." The nitrogen is given as such, and calculated to its equivalent, ammonia. The potash is given as simple, uncombined potash (K 2 O). The number of the analysis on the Station books is given in the first column at the left, and the place where this particular sample was drawn, in the column at the right of the first page. 3 Selma. 4169 Allison & Addison Acid Phos Allison & Addison, Richmond, Wadesboro 3726 4 Ammoniated Bone.... Maryland Fertilizer and Manu-, Shelby 5 3630 Ammoniated Dissolved Bone.. John Merryman & Co., 24 Second Wilmington 6 3746 3785 N. C., Ammoniated Soluble Navas- Navassa Guano Co., Wilmington, Warsaw. 7 New Bern..... 3852 Anchor Brand Southern Fertilizing Co., 1321 Cary Selma........ 8 3745 3851 3885 3816 Anchor Brand for Tobacco,.. Southern Fertilizing Co., 1321 Cary Warsaw Arlington Ammoniated So- Dambmann Bros. & Co., Balti- Henderson... 10 more, Md., Atlantic Acid Phosphate...... Atlantic Phosphate Co., Charles- Wadesboro...... 12 'Chemical Co. of Canton, 32 and 34 Wilson........... 13 Baker's Standard Guano....... Chemical Co. of Canton, 32 and 34 Fair Bluff.... 14 15 3646 4188 f 3681 3728) Bone and Peruvian Guano.... Upshur Guano Co., Norfolk, Va., 3759) Winston......... 16 3817 Wm. Davison & Co., Box 227, Durham...... 37211) "Bos" Ammoniated Super- Baltimore, Md., Henderson phosphate 17 Bradley Fertilizing Co., Lewis F. Winton............... 18 E. B. Whitman, 104 S. Charles st., Henderson....... 19 Chesapeake Guano Co., 21 P. O. Fremont ......... 20 3625) Diamond Soluble Bone......... Walton, Whann & Co., Wilming- Wilmington..... 21 37405 ton, Del., Wilmington...... 3725 Dissolved Bone Phosphate of John S. Reese & Co., 10 South st., Lincolnton 23 3668) Durham Bull Fertilizer....... Durham Fertilizer Co., Durham, Shoe Heel. 3853 Eddystone Soluble Guano..... Clark's Cove Guano Co., New Bed- Selma 24. 25 3738 Edisto Acid Phosphate......... Edisto Phosphate Co., Charleston, Wilmington..... 26 S. C., 3682 Etiwan Dissolved Bone......... Etiwan Phosphate Co., Charles- Monroe.......... 28 30 3883 Superphosphate Eureka Ammoniated Bone Atlantic & Va. Fertilizing Co., Raleigh....... 3778 Farmers' Bone Fertilizer...... Enterprise Fertil'g Co., Tarboro... Tarboro........... 31 3644 Farmers' Friend Fertilizer... Read & Co., 88 Wall st., N. Y...... 3690 3705 Game Guano........... 3675 Giant Guano........... Baltimore Guano Co., 32 S. Charles Edenton........... 33 street, Baltimore, Rasin Fertilizer Co., P. O. Box Lilesville....... 34 715, Baltimore, Md., ..... 3626) Gibbs & Co.'s High Grade E. J. Powers, Wilmington, N. C., Wilmington 35 3791 f Ammoniated Phosphate..... Wilson........ 3657 Good Luck Guano.............. The R. J. Ruth Co., 6 S. street, Whiteville....... 36 3876) Baltimore, Md., 3748) High Grade Prem. Guano..... George L. Arps, Norfolk, Va., 3638 3807 Wilmington 3672) Home Fertilizer, Slingluff's Boykin, Carmer & Co, 11 and 13 Gibson.. 3783 > Pure Dissolved Bone for... Liberty st., Baltimore, Md., 3901) 37 38 'Greenville. 3739 L. & R. Acid Phosphate......... Lorentz & Rittler, 70 South st., Wilmington..... 39 Baltimore, Md., Lazaretto Acid Phosphate..... Lazaretto Chem. and Fert. Works, Beaver Dam.... 41 Lister's Ammoniated Dis- Lister's Agricultural Chemical Raleigh... Works, Newark, N. J., Toisnot. 42 |