The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

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Identifikator:: 1757028552

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-135495

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XV, 152 Seiten; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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MINERAL PRODUCTS. 35 remains for effective legislation to be enacted to make these large reserves available for use. POTASH SALTS. Outside of Germany there is no known commercial source of potash salts. If the German supplies are cut off during the Euro pean war the agricultural world must either go without potash salts after the meager stock now on hand is exhausted or bestir itself to find another adequate source. Many inquiries regarding a do mestic supply of potash salts have been addressed to the United States Geological Survey since the beginning of the war, and the fertilizer journals report that small quantities of spot material are changing hands at sharp premiums. The situation is undoubtedly still less satisfactory than it was a few years ago, when national interest was first awakened to the fact that the United States is entirely de pendent on Germany for this important class of fertilizer materials. The imports of potash salts listed as such in the reports of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce include the carbonate, cyanide, chloride, nitrate, and sulphate of potassium, caustic potash, and other potash compounds. The annual imports of these salts during the last three years have averaged about 035,000,000 pounds in quantity, and $11,000,000 in value. These figures, however, rep resent only a part of the potash salts entering the United States, as they do not include the imports of kainite and manure salts which are used in fertilizers. The quantity of materials of this class imported for consumption in the United States during the last three years has averaged about 700,000 tons, valued at $4,300,000, annually. Thus it is apparent that the value of the annual imports of potash salts exceeds $15,000,000. Potash salts are employed in many industries other than the fertilizer industry. Already letters have come to the Geological Survey from glass works and chemical industries inquiring where a domestic supply of potash salts can be secured. The chemical manufactures of potash include potassium hydrate, or caustic potash, and the carbonate and bicarbonate of potash, used principally in glass and soap making; the potash alums ; cyanides, including potas sium cyanide, potassium ferrocyanide, and potassium ferricyanide ; Various potash bleaching chemicals, dyestuffs, explosives containing Potash nitrate, and a long list of general chemicals. The needs of the manufacturers and the farmers of the country ar e well known and keenly appreciated by the Geological Survey. Since the question of a domestic supply of potash salts has become pf public interest the Government has endeavored to locate deposits this country and has followed up every clue that seemed to prom- lse results of importance. The Survey’s work has extended from

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