Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-07-30
FALL FERTILIZER PRICES
SHOULD BE 80 PER CENT
LOWER

SHOULD BE 80 PER CENT
LOWER
The following is from recent is
sue of the Farm Bureau News:
As the result of the Department of
Agrlculture's conferences and COM
mun1catlons with individual manu-
facturers of fertilizers, without the
department having fixed any prices.
it is now in position to announce
that the farmers of the country
should obtain their mixed fertilizers
for the fall season of 1919 at an av-
erage price of about 80 per cent low
er than the prices which prevailed
for the spring season just passed
This statement applies to the terri
tory north of Arkansas, Tennessee,
Virginia and West Virginia, but in
GLIDING the Ohio river counties of
West Virginia. Fertilizer prices for
the southern states have not yet been
put out. Statements concerning 9TH
er territory will be issued as soon as
prices are made.
The different companies in some in
stances will put out goods at slightly
varying figures, but the attached ia
bic shows maximum f. o. b. prices at
which the principal fertilizer grades
at the three great centers for fertil-
izer distribution, Baltimore, Md,
Philadelphia, Pa, and Carteret, N.
J., to dealers and to farmers order
ing 80 ton lots may be obtained.
These prices are to farmers or deal
ers ordering 80 ton lots, and based on
| delivery in 167 pound bags. Hin 200
pound bags 25 ceD+S per ton should be
deducted; in 125 pound bags 25
cents per ton, and in 100 pound bags
1 r. %0~ Oh he
These prices are subject to>a discount
of per cent if paid in cash on Dec.
l, and further discount of one-haf
! per cent for each month in advance of
that date. These are maximum pric-
IS and competition in the trade may
make prices lower.
The fertilizer trade conditions pro-
vide that these f. 0. b. rates shall ap-
ply to New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
| land and approximately the eastern
half of Pennsylvania. In the Middle
Western territory, including New
| York, western Pennsylvania, and the
Ohio river counties of West Virginia
and west to the western Missouri and
Iowa boundary lines 1913 per ton
viii be added for freight to any rail
road delivery point; to Long Island
delivery points $3.50 per ton will be
added, and to New England $3.50
will be added to rail, water or trolley
| delivery points. In addition to the
prices quoted to New England points
there will be added So per ton for
shipments in less than carload lots
from which a deduction is made of 81
per ton if carload is ordered, 81 per
! ton in the event of two carloads and
up to 90 tons, $3.50 for 100 to 1919
tons, and 81 for 200 tons and over.
1t Is understood, of course, that to
farmers ordering less than 80 ton lots
there must also be added to these
prices a fair profit to the dealer,
1 which usually amounts to about 3
per ton.
The purpose of the department in
/ issuing this statement is three-fold:
/ First, 70 reflect the action of the de-
partment in dealing with the fertiliZ-
er trade under the terms of the Food
4 Control Act, approved August 10,
/ 1917. and the presidents regulations
dated February p, 1918. Second, to
furnish to dealers and TO farmers re-
/ liable information as to the maximum
prices at which they may obtain their
/ fertilizer supplies. Third, to pre-
vent. as far as possible, the wide var
/ iations in prices paid by farmers to
/ dealers for fertilizers delivered dur
/ ing the spring.
| Inc maCCer OF supply anu prices u
unmixed fertilizer material available
/ to farmers for direct application TO
/ the soil or for home mixture, such as
nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia,
ammonia, the organic ammoniates,
acid phosphate and potash salts, is
/ still under investigation by the de-
partment. With the exception of
acid phosphate, none of these stan
dard materials are produced by the
| fertilizer manufacturers, although
some of the ammoniates are produced
BY companies of which the fertilizer
companies are subsidiaries As these
materials constitute on the average
about two-thirds of the cost of mixed
fertilizers, and as much of this ma
terial is not produced by the fertilizer
manufacturers, it is an important
subject for investigation by the de-
partment, both as influencing the
price of mixed goods and as material
which the farmer may wish to pur-
chase direct. 1t is difficult subject
of investigation, because 1t is Deepen
dent upon so many Industries IN
which it is q by-product, and IS IN
fuenced by so many factors
The department is also giving con-
sideration to the differential in de-
livery rates in different parts of the
country which have prevailed IN the
fertilizer trade for some years
Anna Phos. Acid Potash Per ton
NH PO Z o