December, 1020 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 11 



Potash arriving at an American ft 



Plenty of Potash 



AFTER five years of Potash famine 

 L there is now plenty of Potash to 

 be had at prices that will permit it to 

 be used at a good profit. 



When Potash in mixed fertilizers 

 was sold at five dollars per unit, every- 

 body exclaimed that the price was 

 "prohibitive". This was a state of 

 mind. As a matter of fact, when the 

 records of long continued experiments 

 east, south, and west, were carefully gone 

 over it was found that there were plenty 

 of cases where the crop increase from 

 the use of Potash on corn, wheat, oats, 

 cotton, tobacco, potatoes, vegetables 

 and fruit returned over five dollars per 

 unit, even valuing the crops at prices 

 current before 1914. 



Now prices of Potash are less than one- 

 half of these "prohibitive prices" and prices 

 of farm products are still high enough to 

 make the purchase of the five to ten per cent. 

 Potash fertilizers a very profitable invest- 

 ment when yields alone are considered. 



But this is not all. The shipping and 

 keeping quality of -many of our truck, fruit 

 and special crops has suffered from lack of 

 Potash. 



Plant diseases have increased for the same 

 reason. 



Our best lands have been overworked to 

 the limit and need restoration. 



The fertilizer manufacturer who really has 

 the foresight to understand that he serves 

 his own and his customers' interest best by 



But is this high Potashjoods?* 



furnishing what his community really needs 

 will return to the formulas that were found 

 most profitable for his community before the 

 Potash famine upset things. Indeed this is 

 putting the case mildly, for provision should 

 be made not only to restore the old high 

 Potash formulas, but to use additional 

 Potash to restore the drain on the soil during 

 the past five years. 



We never advised the use of Potash on 

 soils where we had reason to believe it would 

 not prove profitable, and never shall do so. 



There is not a single crop on which Potash 

 has not been found profitable on many types 

 of soil. 



In the readjustment period when farmers 

 must use every means to assure success it is 

 of the utmost importance that they should 

 not be turned aside in their efforts to buy 

 fertilizers with a reasonable (five to ten) per 

 cent, of Potash. 



Potash Pays 



and after five years of Potash famine it will 

 pay better than ever. 



It takes time to produce and ship Potash 

 and large stocks are not carried at Potash 

 works. 



Therefore it is imperative that you notify 

 your dealer at once what brands of fertilizer 

 you will require and that you should not be 

 induced to change your order on any claim 

 that the right kind of goods cannot be se- 

 cured. Stick to it and you can get what you 

 know you want. 



SOIL AND CROP SERVICE, POTASH SYNDICATE 



H. A. HUSTON. Manager 

 42 Broadway New York 



VRITING ADVE 



