Show FERTILIZER SEASON HAS NUT NOT V COME UP TO EXPECTATIONS According to the thc Wall Street Journal Jour Jour- nal pal the fertilizer season has not been entirely satisfactory At the moment there is a fair demand for fertilizers from the south but reduction of acreage acreage acre acre- age In tho cotton belt coupled with the high h prices asked for tor tho the plant food has cause consumers to hold off Manufacturers of mixed fertilizers will wm probably have 1110 to lo carry over pretty prell l large arge stocks into the fall faU The situation in the mineral fertilizer er cr department Is rendered more uncertain uncertain tain b by several important factors Ono One Ones i is IE s the tho effort efort of the United Stales Stale government gov S to dispose o of Its large supplies of or nitrate The stocks stockA amount to 22 tons In this country countr and In Chile nil all acquired at nt higher prices during dur dur- i ing inI ng the war TIme Tho government has been ln striving to get these supplies off oC its Us hands at as little loss as possible and the tho farmers knowing the situation have felt now that the tho war Is over that the tile prices are too high and have purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased only necessary amounts en When the government first offered tho the nitrate It was as set at a hundred hundred bundred hun bun dred pounds vessel ex-vessel at Atlantic an anGul and Gulf Gul ports Earl Early In March this was cut to to 40 to bold hold during March Marchand Marchand Marchand and April Though this re reduction led to increased sales the tho price I is still high compared to prewar levels Another Another An An- Another other cut is anticipated next month but at any rate largo large Q of the tho nitrate will Ill have bavo to bo be carried over Furthermore it Is pretty prett certain that manufacturers of or explosives also hold held considerable stocks of oC nitrate The demand for potash salts Is not riot notha what ha t It Jl should hould be ue In spite o of big of offerings of- of s and lower prices Tho The largo accumulation of ot American potash inscore in store score for some game time is being pressed for or sale an and some somo manufacturers claim that they have havo purchased It as low as 2 a unit while Nebraska potash is freely Creely offered at The high grade potash sh market Is at a standstill with none coming In While It Is unlike unlikely that foreign potash will be bo d delivered for some time to come consumers arc are unwilling to place orders until they know more certain certainly what arran arrangements arrange arrange- c- c ments ment are going to be made to bring In European potash The he phosphate rock Jock business Is 18 In readiness for tor big LiS- exports but lacks bottoms Stocks on hand are arc exceedingly exceed exceed- I Ins ly small lack of labor having had bad much to do with this Time The dem demand nd h here Te for Cor ground pho phosphate rock for di direct direct di- di I application to the soil BOU has exceeded exceed exceed- e ed tire the supply There Is a good for tor phosphate phate acid and Scandinavian countries hive sent some somo big orders which await vessels for transportation The outlook for the fertilizer business busi- busi ness rI n no far as u concerned con con- Is good g for consumers are ara now going slow Ilow and It is difficult t I b port Dor on account of or freight difficulties plenty of orders from Cram abroad are lre on hand anti and prices received recel from CT e consumers are profitable hie OIL STOCKS Anglo Angio Amer 23 22 2 Borne Dorne er 52 noo Hucke Buckeye 10 JO- JO 5 Continental 70 Crescent 38 3 Cumberland Ol OO-Ol Eureka 66 Galena l lUS liS US Galena Galeria pfd HO Illinois Pipe l 18 Int mt P L 30 27 Indiana Pipe Merrill Oil 32 Midwest l 18 Nat al Transit 22 N K 1 Y Transit 19 Northern Pipe 11 1 Ohio Oil all 92 88 Penn rG- rG 5 7 Prairie PraIrie Pipe 27 27 i I 30 Solar olar 90 0 Southern Pipe Pip Kb South Penn lenn Oil oo-no oo S. S O. O CaL Cat 2 SO r S. S O. O Ind Gl S. S O. O Kan S. S O. 0 Ky KV 4 O H K 5 O. O Nob Ieh 60 40 S. S O O. N J. J S 5 O O. N K Y iIO 85 S. S O. O Ohio 1000 Swan Finch enlon Tank lank 10 Vacuum I 40 O- O Oli li i Washington I I |