Muscle Shoals: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs House of Representatives Sixty-ninth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 16396, H.R. 16614, Part 4

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927 - Muscle Shoals (Ala.) - 2871 pages

FOREWORD	751

APPENDIX	752

Tenyear increase in expenditures of farmers for fertilizers	754

Why we need to use more fertilizers fertilizer consumption and wheat production in worlds principal countries	756

Expenditures of farmers for fertilizers map opposite	759

Fertilizer situation in Alabama__	761

Relation between farmers purchasing power and the number of busi ness failures__	762

PRESENT CONDITIONS IN THE FERTIlizer Industry AND	763

The effect of cheap amortized power as labor saver on farm	791

Items comprising cost of hydroelectric power	793

The storage dams that should be built and the penalty Mr Ford pays	798

Imports of Chilean nitrate into the United States 802	802

The establishment of an uptodate nitrogen industry in the United	803

Financial returns to the Government under the Ford offer	805

The unsound principles of the Federal power act reviewed	810

PART THREE THE FUTURE FERTILIZER INDUSTRY	816

Proportions of the three primary plant foods in our principal foodstuff crops	764

Annual nitrogen capacity of nitrate plant No 2	765

Census estimate of factory value of fertilizers	767

The earnings of a 100 investment in the fertilizer business	768

The effect of the adoption of modern processes at Muscle Shoals	770

Consumption of nitrogen in commercial fertilizers in the United States	774

WHAT MR Ford AGREES TO	776

A brief summary of the provisions of the offer in which jointly and sever Page	777

Outstanding Federal bond issues	780

Amount amortized by Ford sinkingfund payments	781

The Nitrate Plants that Mr Ford Would Buy for 5000000	783

Investment required to remodel nitrate plants for production of con centrated fertilizers	788

Improved fertilizer products sold direct to farmers are the basis of half	789

What cheap nitrogen means in commercial fertilizers	817

Letter of transmittal VII	1025

Report of the district engineer 9	1034

Tennessee River Chattanooga to Florence 19	1045

Tennessee River Florence to Paducah 30	1056

Clinch River 37	1063

French Broad River 44	1070

Richland River 52	1078

Sequatchie River 58	1084

Big Sandy River 65	1091

Report of the division engineer 82	1111

River Basin 117	1143

Index	1617

Title	Muscle Shoals: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs House of Representatives Sixty-ninth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 16396, H.R. 16614, Part 4 Muscle Shoals: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs House of Representatives Sixty-ninth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 16396, H.R. 16614, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs
Author	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs
Publisher	U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	12 Sep 2007
Length	2871 pages

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