284 State Horticultural Society. 



as that which we offer yon. The average analysis of barnyard manure 

 shows: 



One-half of one per cent nitrogen; one-third of one per cent phos- 

 phoric acid; one-half of one per cent potash. 



This is equivalent to 26.6 pounds of plant food per ton of 2,000 

 pounds, whereas the average fertilizer that we offer you contains about 

 486 pounds of plant food, being the combined amount of nitrogen, phos- 

 phoric acid and potash which they contain. 



It might be interesting to you to know from what ingredients a 

 given formula can be made. The principal sources of nitrogen, phos- 

 phoric acid and potash are as follows: 



Blood, bones, meat scraps, hoofs, horns, fish scrap, kainit, nitrate 

 of soda, cotton seed meal, castor pomace, phosphate rock, sulphate of 

 potash, muriate of potash, potash salts, etc. 



We think that you will agree with us that blood, bones and meat 

 scraps are the most natural fertilizers, and it is from these ingredients 

 that our fertilizers, in which we want to interest you, are made. 



Now a word as to a fertilizer for fruits: We have heretofore rather 

 neglected our nearby fruit growers, and have devoted our efforts to 

 other kinds of crops, excepting in the case of California, so can give you 

 no practical illustrations as to benefits to be derived from our fertilizers 

 in our local states; but you may be interested in some remarks regard- 

 ing what the writer found on his visit to California. 



A great deal of the soil in California, as most of you are aware, is 

 decomposed rock in the foot hills, although there is considerable adobe 

 land used for fruit culture. The writer was very much surprised to 

 find so much poor quality of fruit. This refers particularly to the cit- 

 rus fruit regions. Their oranges and lemons were small, and when there 

 was any size to them, a great deal of the fruit was coarse and thick- 

 skinned. They were also troubled a great deal with dropping of their 

 fruit. 



The ranchmen in California we found very much interested in the 

 matter of fertilizing, and they knew as a class, very little about the sub- 

 ject, and were very grateful to have the writer give them the benefit of 

 our knowledge. We found they had been using as a fertilizer (where 

 fertilizing was done) barnyard manure, slieep manure, acid phosphate 



