No. A UEPAKTAIENT OF AGK1CULTURE 4«; 



in quality and quantity it will produce in the crop to which it is 

 applied. 



Germany claims to have increased their crop production sevenfold 

 by the use of fertilizers. The fertilizer market has taken on a tone 

 of increased activity. Japan is becoming a good market for new 

 fertilizer materials and other countries are following suit. 



The proper application of any kind of fertilizer to the soil largely 

 depends on the previous crop, the kind of crop desired the next 

 season, an even distribution of the fertilizer over the surface, while 

 some experience may be of assistance in using fertilizer as well as in 

 preparing it. Land rich in potash is not particularly benefitted by 

 an application of that element and the same may be stated of phos- 

 phatic and nitrogeneous materials. It is needless to say that com- 

 mercial fertilizers, to be complete, must contain three elements, 

 ammonia (or nitrogen), phosphoric acid and potash. 



We believe, taking our State over, that the tendency is towards 

 using complete fertilizer. 



We are familiar with a farmers organization that orders large 

 quantities in the spring of the year of a complete fertilizer, the 

 analysis of which was ammonia 3, acid 7, potash 12. With very 

 little modification this formula is used with good results throughout 

 the whole season. 



Every dollar put into fertilizer and used on the farm is equivalent 

 to making deposits in bank for the future, while the investment will 

 be safe at all times. 



The farmer who has a large heap of manure is the one who should 

 purchase fertilizer, as the combination cannot be surpassed. There 

 are some users of fertilizers who frequently want to know from 

 what source the different elements in a fertilizer are derived. For 

 instance, a fertilizer contains 3 per cent, ammonia. The idea is that 

 the manufacturer should state upon the bag or sack from what source 

 the ammonia is drawn, whether from nitrate of soda, blood, tankage 

 leather scraps or whatever else. Likewise with the phosphoric acid 

 and potash, whether the acid is derived from animal bone or from 

 S. C. rock, or whether the potash is derived from muriate, sulphate 

 or kainit, and so on. This by our State law is not required at 

 present. Whether it w r ould be better for the consumers' best inter- 

 ests to know or have this information given as above set forth is an 

 open question. The farmer needs, how T ever, all the light and protec- 

 tion that can be thrown around him in respect to the proper pur- 

 chase of fertilizer for results. 



Year after year, farmers are using commercial fertilizer more in- 

 telligently. The farmers' institutes are proving a great factor in 

 educating the farmers along these lines, and the many bulletins sent 

 out by the Experimental Stations are giving to the farmer a vast 

 amount of valuable information along the lines of using fertilizers. 



The Department of Agriculture by its special agents being sent 

 out over the State to collect fertilizer samples under the direction 

 of our Honorable Secretary of Agriculture, N. B. Critchfield, is 

 doing a valuable work collecting these samples, which samples are 

 subsequently analyzed by the chemist. The results of such analyza- 

 tion being published and sent out broadcast over the State is doing 

 a vast amount of good for the farmers. 



No one need be in ignorance ai to the proper nie of commercial 



