120 Report op the Acting Director and Chemist of the 



Clark's Cove Fertilizer Co., 81 Fulton St., 'New York City. 



Crocker Fertilizer and Chemical Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 



Eastern Farm Supply Association, Montclair, N. J. 



Farmers' Fertilizer Co., 135 Lock St., Syracuse, N, Y. 



Geo. B. Forrester, 169 Front St., New York City. 



Great Eastern Fertilizer Co., Rutland, Vt. 



Hallock & Duryee Fertilizer Co., Mattituck, L. I., N. Y. 



Lister's Agricultural Chemical Works, Newark, N. J. 



Frederick Ludlam, 108 Water St., New York City. 



Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano Co., 143 Liberty St., New 

 York City. 



Maryland Fertilizing and Manufacturing Co., 30 So. HoUiday 

 St., Baltimore, Md. 



Robert L. Merwin, 88 Wall St., New York City. 



Munroe, Lalor & Co., Oswego, N. Y, 



North-Western Fertilizer Co., Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. 



Pacific Guano Co., Rochester, N. Y. (or New York City.) 



Moro Phillips Chemical Co., 131 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Rasin Fertilizer Co., 35 Chamber of Commerce, Baltimore, Md. 



Standard Fertilizer Co., Farlow Building, State St., Boston, Mass. 



Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. 



Ellsworth Tuthill & Co., Promised Land, L. I. 



Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co., 2 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



M. E. Wheeler & Co., Rutland, Yt. 



Williams & Clark Fertilizer Co., 81 Fulton St., New York City. 



9. Methods and Seasons of Applying Fertilizers. 



The method to be used in applying a fertilizer depends primarily 

 upon the efficiency with which the constituents of the fertilizer are 

 distributed most thoroughly and uniformly throughout the portion 

 of soil where the plant roots are. The eiiect of a fertilizer is lost 

 so far as it does not reach the plant roots. Pains must be taken to 

 secure even and complete distribution of fertilizers on or in the soil, 

 since it is desired to have the food reach every plant in the field. 

 In order to distribute small quantities of concentrated fertilizers 

 over a broad area, it is well to dilute by mixing with some such sub- 

 stance as dry earth, road-dust, sifted coal-ashes or sand. 



Drilling and Broadcasting-. — As between applying fertilizers 

 with the drill or by broadcasting, the best results are given some- 



