THE WEEK'S PRICE CHANGES April 21, 1952 Advances CURRENT
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S 0.80 S 0.82 Η-acid, lb. 0.74 Cocoa b u t t e r , lb. 0.74 Va 7.20 Hydroxycitronellal, lb. 6.75 6.40 M e n t h o l , Brazilian, l b . 6.50 0.75 o-!Nitro-p-chlorophenol, lb. 1.00 Phosphoric acid, N F , cby., 8?5 cwt. S.40 Sodium pyrophosphate, "7.75 tetra, cwt. 7.85 0.39 T u n g oil. crude, t a n k s , lb. 0.39V4 Declines S 72.00 S 62.50 Calcium cyanamide, t o n 130.00 117.50 Copra, coast, ton Cresylic acid, imported, 1.20 1.05 gal. 7.0O 6.75 Dried blood, unit 1.14 1.09 E g g yolk, lb. 7.50 7.00 Ergot, l b . G u m arabic, amber sorts, O.I41/2 lb. 0.15 Molasses, blackstrap, I-a., 0.25 0.24V2 gal. NTaphthalene, crude, imp., lb. O.061/-2 0.07 Oils, l b . 0.081/2 O.07"/8 Coconut, crude, coast 1.80 Codliver, gal. 1.65 Corn 0.113/4 Crude, tanks, coast O.ll'/a 0.143/4 0.14»/2 Refined, tanks, Ν . Υ. O.IO1/2 O.lO'/s Cottonseed, crude, So. Ε 0.25V2 Oiticica, tanks 0.24 Ά Peanut, crude, t a n k s , 0.12 3/ 4 So. E. 0.12V4 O.ISV2 Safflower, drums 0.16 207.00 Quicksilver, flask 200.00 0.87 R. .salt, paste, lb. 0.83 Red, verniillion, mercury, lb. 3.79 3.75 0.98 Safrol, lb. 0.90 Shellac, bone-dry, bleached. lb. 0.52 O.ôl O.I8V2 0.16 Toluenesulfonic acid, l b . 68.00 65.00 Valonia cups, ton
The Department of Labor has discontinued the issuance of weekly statistics on price indices in the chemicals field. However, by now figures for March have been issued. For chemicals and allied products trie index figure is 105.4 (1947—49 ecjuals 100) compared with 105.9 for February and 111.8 for March 1951. For industrial chemicals, the March index is 117.1 against 117.5 for February and 120.6 for March the year before. For inorganic chemicals the three indices are: 120.1, 119.4, and 119.2; for organic chemicals, 115.6, 116.6 and 121.0. Merck & Co., Inc., has announced lower prices on certain antibiotic feed supplements. The new price on procaine penicillin, 4 grams per pound, is 80 cents per pound in carlots; its procaine penicillin ( 2 grams per lb. ) and vitamin Bi_> now sell at 55 cents, carlots. American Cyanamid Co., which reduced the price of its calcium cyanamide from $72.50 to $72 per ton early in April, is reducing it further to $62.50 per ton, effective May 1. Chas. L . Huisking & Co., Inc., Brooklyn 5, Ν. Υ., has issued a folder on its April price list of drugs, chemicals, alka loids, oils, vitamins, and other raw mate rials for the pharmaceutical and allied industries. Hooker Electrochemical Co. announces changed prices on monochloroacetic acid, technical, in 300-lb. drums, freight equal ized, to 20.25 and 21.25 cents per pound, carlots and l.c.l., respectively. V O L U M E
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Better grass silage — cheaper Untreated grass silage is, of course, highly perishable; and though various methods of checking fermentation have been employed, each has had its own drawback—difficulty of application, ijneSfectiveness, high cost. Use of liquid sulfur dioxide, begun experimentally in 19^0 sind established commercially in 1951 b y Virginia Smelting Company, has proved a most satisfactory all-round solution to t h e problem. Under the trade name "Silagas," t h e company's S 0 2 is now in use on hundreds of farms. I t has been found to be 30 % to 6Q%? louver in cost t h a n any method previously employed — a n d successful in preserving a high proportion of proteins, organic nutrier^ts a n d carotene t h a t were lost in earlier ensiling processes. Could S 0 2 help y-ou ?
For three decades "Virginia*' has been continuously work ing t o make i t s SO2 moxe use ful t o industry. T o daie, the versatile chemical has ftnund a place in t h e operations of more than 40 different indus tries, as a reducing, neutraliz ing and bleaching ager&t, pre servative and antichlor, -and for p H control. Perhaps "Vir ginia" chemists could point out ways in which S0 2 would be helpful to you. T h e y ' d be glad to look into t h e possibili ties, and without obligation. As a first step, why not s e n d for our folder on "Virginia." SO 2 . VIRGINIA
SMELTING COMPANY
Box 51, West Norfolk, Virginia
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