case may be. At Charlotte, add to the reported value the freight from Charleston, Wilmington or West Point, and so for every other point. This plan differs materially from the plan previously pursued, and we ask especial attention to this. The plan followed by the Station in 1885, and all previous years, in common with most of the bureaus of the same kind, was to ascertain the average cash value of fertilizers at the chief interior centres of the trade, such as Raleigh and Charlotte, and to base the estimates upon this. This plan, always very unsatisfactory, became entirely impracticable when the competition of different fertilizer-manufacturing centres cut down the prices to the lowest margin of profits. The figures agreed upon for use during 1887 were: To illustrate the significance and application of this 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 63 cents, the figure for one pound "available," and you get $16.25 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 $18.50, 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 166 analyses of samples of commercial fertilizers during 1887. 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 shipping, 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 continued 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,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. In the tables the first set of figures of each brand represent the spring analyses, the second set, marked "F," indicates the fall analyses of samples of the same brands. Station No. NAME. ADDRESS OF MANUFACTURER SAMPLED 4276 Acid Phosphate. 4298 Acme Fertilizer. Rasin Fertilizer Co., P.O. Box Raleigh 1 Acme Manufacturing Co., Selma..... 2 4329 Allison & Addison Acid Allison & Addison, Rich- Greensboro. 3 Phosphate, Animoniated Bone..... mond, Va, Maryland Fertilizer and Man- 4270) Ammoniated Dissolved John Merrymon & Co.,24 Sec- Lumberton. 5 F 4559 ( Bone, ond street, Baltimore, Md., Shelby. 4300) Ammoniated Soluble Na- Navassa Guano Co., Wil- Raleigh mington, N. C., Cary street, Richmond, Va. Siler 4338 Anchor Brand for To-Southern Fertilizing Co., 1321 Hillsboro bacco, 4263) Ashepoo Acid Phosphate Ashepoo Phosphate Co., Rob- Charlotte F 4571 S ertson, Taylor & Co., Ag'ts, Charlotte Charleston, S. C., F 4570 Ashepoo Fertilizer. .... Ashepoo Phosphate Co., Rob- Charlotte ertson, Taylor & Co., Ag'ts, 7 8 9 4310) Atlantic Acid Phosphate, Atlantic Phosphate Co., F 4565 ( Charleston, S. C., 4314 Raleigh 10 Baker's Standard Guano, Chemical Co. of Canton, 32 & Clayton .... 11 4313 Baltimore Soluble Bone, Baltimore Guano Co., 32 & 34 Raleigh 12 4370 Bone and Potash Com-Baugh & Sons, Baltimore, Franklinton 13 Bradley Fertilizing Co.,Lewis Wilmington 15 Bos" Ammoniated Su- Wm. Davison & Co., Box 227, 4269 Bradley's Patent Super phosphate of Lime, 14 22.92 22.42 21.57 10 15.45 1.29 8.62 2.12 10.74 13.79 1.79 8.61 2.15 10.79 1116.43 3.26 6.45 1.50 7.95 8 to 11 1.84 2.23 2 to 3 1218.84 0.10 10.54 1.39 11.93 12 to 14 15.39 13 11.79 3.54 4.03 3.07 7.10 6 to 8 1.78 2.16 2 to 2% 2.31 2 to 3 14 15 16.14 2.41 8.55 1.39 9.94 16 12.39 3.95 6.29 1.31 7.60 8 to 10 2.05 2.49 2 to 3 2.62 2 to 3 |