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not be lower than the price for the inland sale. Further, there are
provisions concerning the amount of production by works which may
subsequently be received into the syndicate. These provisions, however,
 intended to discourage the establishment of too many mines, did
not prove entirely satisfactory, for the number of syndicated mines
increased from 45 in 1910 to 75 in 1911, to 94 in 1912, and to 134 in
1913. In January, 1913, an amendment to the potash law, making
the conditions attending the establishment of new works still more
difficult, was passed by the influence of the Government, but this
amendment, too, seems not to have completely fulfilled its object, as
the number of potash mines in the syndicate at present is 200, which
includes every potash mine in Germany.
The apportionments by the Verteilungsstelle to the various mines
of the amounts which they may produce, and the decisions in regard
to interpretation of contracts, terms of delivery and sale, etc., by the
Verteilungsstelle and the Berufungskommission, are executed by two
general directors who constitute the central management of the syndicate.
 The present general directors of the Potash Syndicate are
Dr. Schiiddekopf and Dr. Forthmann, who have their offices at the
headquarters of the syndicate in Berlin.
As previously stated, the Potash Syndicate at present comprises
200 mines. A complete list of these mines is not available. The last
published list,' however, giving the names of the mines and the
quota of production assigned to each on January 1, 1911, includes the
76 mines which were then existing and which are at present generally
the most important mines of the syndicate.
An exposition of the potash law in detail, such as can not be given
in a report of this nature, will be found clearly set forth in the book
“ Kartelle des Bergbaues,” pages 157-234.2 Further useful information
 is embodied in the annual report of the Berlin consulate general
for 1911 and in the report of February 11, 1914, on “Potash shipments
 during 1914.” Two further reports from the Berlin consulate
general, one of September 29, 1914, “Shipments of potash from
Germany to the United States,” and one of March 10, 1915, “ Unfavorable
 outlook of the German potash industry for 1915,” contain
more recent information showing the effect of the war upon some
phases of the industry.
Foreign markets.—The German potash industry, by reason of the
fact that it is a natural as well as an economic monopoly, operates in
practically all of the markets of the world. Not much attention was
paid to the organization of a selling propaganda in foreign markets
until the last decade of the nineteenth century. This was due, probably,
 to the fact that the industry had not before that time possessed
a sufficiently centralized management. However, in 1893, an official
representative was sent to New York, and in 1897 another to Paris.
In the year 1907 the propaganda department of the syndicate consisted
 of 41 bureaus with 92 officials. Further attempts since that
time have been made, both in Germany and in foreign countries,
through advertising, expositions, and experimental stations to bring
to public notice the products of the industry.

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1 Schoen ..aann, Josef, “ Die deutsche Kali-Industrie u. d. Kaligesetz,” Hannover:
Hahn, 1911 (VIII, 1562 8).
 Passow, Richard, * Kartelle d. Berghaues.” Leipzig u. Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1911.
(VI, 328 8.) Materialien f. d. wirtschaftswissenschaftl. Studivm Bd. 1.