Fo pf f ? r published wholesale quotations on those articles which 

 - he has to buy. Among the latter, agricultural chemi- 

 22 cals occupy a position of prime importance, not only as 

 to actual effect on farm prosperity, but as to the actual 

 amount of cash which the farmer has to spend, for his 

 produce comes out of the soil and its amount and quality 

 is determined by the character of the chemicals he puts 

 in it. Agricultural journals generally, which profess 

 to be friends of the farmer, should make a continued 

 effort in the direction of enhancing his purchasing 

 power, by endeavoring to make him more prosperous. 

 This cannot be done under old conditions of helping 

 to make him, at the outset, pay such a large bonus for 

 agricultural chemicals under one pretext or another. 



The improvement of our water-ways, so long urged 

 by us, seems at last to be in sight; and farm chemicals 

 at lower rates may ultimately be expected, even at in- 

 terior points. 



You should buy your plant food in the best arid 

 cheapest forms, and feed it to the plants as they re- 

 quire it. You can buy available Nitrogen in Nitrate 

 of Soda for about 18 cents per pound. In so-called 

 "complete fertilizers," Nitrogen costs from 20 to 30 

 cents per pound, and even then only part of it is likely 

 to be available. Nitrate of Soda is the best form in 

 which to buy Available Nitrogen, cheapest also be- 

 cause quickest acting. 



One would not think of buying raw, unground 

 phosphate rock for phosphatic plant food; why, then, 

 should one ever seriously consider buying the most 

 expensive plant food, viz.: Nitrogen in the raw and 

 indigestible forms, which many manufacturers and 

 dealers endeavor to foist on our farmers. 



Abstract of United States Experiment Station 



Record. 



From Massachusetts Station Report, 1905. 

 Availability Tests. 



Mixed oats and peas were grown this year in con- 

 nection with comparative tests of different sources of 



