The morning news., 1892-03-10
FERTILIZERS DECREASE.
FORTY PEA CENT. REDUCTION IN
SHIPMENTS FROM CAVANNAH.

in the Amount Handled at This
Port-The Manufacturers Cut Down
Their Output and the Merchants
and Factors Very Careful About
Making saIes-Low Price OF Cotton
and Poor Prosp scts for Improve
ment the Ceuse-Eastern Manufact-
urers Withdrawing From the Field.
judging by the decrease in the amount OF
fertilizers sold this year. the next crop OF
cotton should be considerably smaller than
the two previous crops, In the southeast at
least. where fertilizers are chiefly used.
Reports from the large fertilizer manufact-
uring districts, including Baltimore,
Charleston and Savannah, show q falling
off in the manufacture and sale of cotton
fertilizers this year of nearly so per cent
1t is not generally known, except among
the fertilizer men, that the reduction in the
output this season has been SO heavy.
A canvass yesterday of the manufact-
urers and dealers in Savannah showed that
the amount of fertilizers shipped through
and from this port this season is not more
than 60 per cent. of the amount handled
last year.
LAST YEARS SHIPMENTS.
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last year amounted to 157, ,757 tons, divided
as follows: Per Central railroad and
branches. IS. .S3S tons; per Savannah, Flori-
da and Western railway, "A, 732 tons; per
Charleston and Savannah railway, 1850
tons, per Savannah river steamers, 8, ,237
tons; per Florida and Satilla river steamers,
. 8, 500 tons, and by coasters, /, 200 tons.
About GU per cent. Of this amount was by
Savannah manufacturers, and the balance
by eastern manufacturers The domestic
! manufacturers are encroaching upon the
ca stern manufacturers every year. and the
, larger percentage Of the loss by this years
, reduction falls upon the eastern manufact-
urers.
II is estimated that the reduction in enst-
. ern goods shipped through this port this
, year will be not less that 5000 tons John
! Merriman 81 Co. Of Baltimore, who shipped
! about IL, 900 tons through Savannah last
, year will not ship ton this year. They
have withdrawn from the field entirely for
! the season, and perhaps permanently. They
: have made great deal Of money in the
business
. BIG DECREASE IN SALES.
, The well-known northern fertilizer COM
panies, the. Chemical Company OF Canton,
a the Patapsco, the Raisin Fertilizer Com
pany, the Ezell, the Bradley, the Ober Fer.
tilizer Company, are estimated to have
fallen each from | 500 to 5000 tons below
. eastern companies will not be under 10000
tons. The season began late. A statement
issued by the Central railroad recently giv-
ing a comparison of the amounts received
and shipped out up to Feb. II,
q 1891, and the same date this year showed
3 that there was received up to Feb. IL, 1891
"a, 900 tons, of which 81 600 tons had been
/. shipped out, and to the same date this year
= 10. 900 tons were received and only 10000
+ shipped to the interior, falling off of
g Is 900 tons in the amount received and q,
= 00U tons in the amount shipped.
= A FALLING OFF OF 40 PER GENT.
An effort was made yesterday to obtain
the figures for the shipments up to date by
the Central railroad but a statement re-
!, Gently prepared of the shipments up to
4 March l had been taken to At
o Whitehead. It was estimated by
= Central railroad men, however. that
I the amount of fertilizers handled by the
road this year would barely reach 80 per
;, cent. of the business done last year. Cars
Il could hardly be supplied to move the fer.
:; tllizers by the railroads last year, but this
year they have frequently gone out hall
!. loaded.
IS The Savannah manufacturers based their
calculations upon dull season, and were
. not disappointed. 1t was found that they
decreased their output from 25 to so pei
l cent.
HALF AMMONIATED FERTILIZERS.
President Wilcox and Secretary Ives ol
g the Savannah Gueno Company said that
/. they hac manufactured and sold about 81
y per cent. less ammoniated goods this veal
j" than last They increased their sales o.
If acids very largely, however, on account OF
It the withdrawal of some of the northern
1t firms from this field. By reason of thi
d their total output will amount to about 4
/. per cent. of last years
le Secretary Huger of the Commercial
is Guano Company said that the output of hi'
?. company will be about IS per cent. OF
ID last year. Mr.. Huger complained the
!, Charleston was given the benefit Of sucl
:" rates by the railroads that the manufsct
IL urers there are enabled to ship into Savan
! nah territory at even more favorable rate
d than tho Savannah manufacturers coul(
ie make. He said he know of one instanc
is where Charleston was given q rate of z
10 cents per ton below the scheduled rate to
ia point on the Central railroad right In Savan
nah's territory. 1t has been a complaint 70
some years that fertilizers were compelled
to pay higher freight rates than more valu
able commodities
= LITTLE OVER HALF.
Joseph Hull, of Conner, Hull e. Co., sait
81 their output will be Just about tive-eighth
of last years. They have mede hori
"a zontal reduction. he said, shutting dowl
the factory last summer ana naQ sold only
this year to customers who had paid up las
years accounts.
j. 1--WE are now operating from hand t.
q. mouth" said Mr. Hull. producing in smal
ne quantities and will close down in few day
le for the season"
President Baldwin of che Baldwin Fer
Il tilizer Company said their output will
lg nearly equal last years. The Baldwin Fer
tilizer Company does all its manufacturing
and shipping at Port Royal and its produc
=, is not included in the Savannah shipments
AL All of the manufacturers who were seel
On said the resolutions of the alliaucenen ant
~ farmers generally to use as little fertilizer
as possible this year have been of very littl
weight and it would have been very easy {
sell as large an amount of fertilizers thi
be year as last had the manufacturers bee
la will g to sell and the factors and mer
10 chants to handle it.
Charleston shipments are estimated to
about 10000 tons behind last years, or
he decrease Of about 40 per cent.
&. ESTIMATES BY TRAVELLING MEN.
es Travelling men for the fertilizer CON
p panes who have Travelled over Georgia
On Florida, South Carolina and Alabama re
or Gently say that the general estimate OF th
u reduction OF acreage In cotton is 10 TO /