STATE VALUATIONS For Available and Insoluble Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia and Potash, for the Season of 1911. Available Phosphoric Acid .... Insoluble Phosphoric Acid 5c. a pound 1c. a pound Ammonia (or its equivalent in nitrogen)...17c. a pound Ammonia (or its equivalent in nitrogen)... 3.50 per unit Potash 1.10 per unit With a uniform allowance of $1.50 per ton for mixing and bagging. A unit is twenty pounds, or 1 per cent., in a ton. We find this to be the easiest and quickest method for calcu lating the value of fertilizer. To illustrate this, take for example a fertilizer which analyzes as follows: Available Phosphoric Acid...6.22 per cent.x$1.00-$6.22 Insoluble Phosphoric Acid...1.50 per cent.x .30 3.42 per cent.x 3.50- 11.97 .7.23 per cent.x 1.10- 7.95 Mixing and Bagging 1.50 Commercial value at sea ports .$27.94 Or a fertilizer analyzing as follows: Available Phosphoric Acid....8 per cent.x$1.00-$8.00 The above valuations are for cash for materials delivered at Florida seaports, and they can be bought in oneton lots at these prices at the date of issuing this Bulletin. Where fertilizers are bought at interior points, the additional freight to that point must be added. If purchased in carload lots for cash, a reduction of ten per cent. can be made in above valuations, i. e.: Available Phosphoric Acid Potash (K2O) ..90 cents per unit ....99 cents per unit Ammonia (or equivalent in nitrogen)..$3.15 per unit The valuations and market prices in preceding illustra tions are based on market prices for one-ton lots. STATE VALUES. It is not intended by the "State valuation" to fix the price or commercial value of a given brand. The "State values" are the market prices for the various approved chemicals and materials used in mixing or manufacturing commercial fertilizers or commercial stock feed at the date of issuing a Bulletin, or the opening of the "season." They may, but seldom do, vary from the market prices, and are made liberal to meet any slight advance or decline. They are compiled from price lists and commercial reports by reputable dealers and journals. The question is frequently asked: "What is 'Smith's Fruit and Vine' worth per ton?" Such a question cannot be answered categorically. By analysis, the ammonia, available phosphoric acid and potash may be determined, and the inquirer informed what the cost of the necessary material to compound a ton of goods similar to "Smith's Fruit and Vine" would be, using none but accepted and well known materials of the best quality. State values do not consider "trade secrets," loss on bad bills, cost of advertisements and expenses of collec tions. The "State value" is simply that price at which the various ingredients necessary to use in compounding a fertilizer, or feed, can be purchased for cash in ton lots at Florida seaports. These price lists are published in this report, with the "State values" for 1911 deducted therefrom. FACTORS FOR CONVERSION. To convert Ammonia into nitrogen, multiply by. Nitrogen into ammonia, multiply by. 0.824 5.15 1.214 0.1647 6.25 0.458 2.184 0.632 1.583 0.541 Bone phosphate into phosphoric acid, multiply by Phosphoric acid into bone phosphate, multiply by Muriate of potash into actual potash, multiply by Actual potash into muriate of potash, multiply by Sulphate of potash into actual potash, multiply by Actual potash into sulphate of potash, multiply by Nitrate of potash into notrogen, multiply by..... Carbonate of potash into actual potash,multiply by Actual potash into carbonate of potash,multiply by Chlorine, in "kainit,” multiply potash (K2O) by.. 2.33 1.85 0.139 0.681 1.466 For instance, you buy 95 per cent. of nitrate of soda and want to know how much nitrogen is in it, multiply 95 per cent. by 0.1647, you will get 15.65 per cent. nitrogen; you want to know how much ammonia this nitrogen is equivalent to, then multiply 15.65 per cent. by 1.214 and you get 18.99 per cent., the equivalent in ammonia. Or, to convert 90 per cent. carbonate of potash into actual potash (K,O), multiply 90 by 0.681, equals 61.29 per cent. actual potash (K20). COPIES OF THE FERTILIZER AND STOCK FEED LAWS. Citizens interested in the fertilizer and stock feed laws of the State, and desiring to avail themselves of their pro |