MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 1912-16


POTASSIUM CONSUMPTION IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES

Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung, April 22, 1916, p. 6.

...According to data of the potassium syndicate, consumption of potassium for fertilisers in Austria-Hungary and Germany during recent years was as follows (in kg. per sq. km. of usable surface):

1900 1910 1913
Austria 12.4 64.3 114.2
Hungary 0.5 6.1 19.8
Germany 334.4 1,025.1 1,529.3