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fertilizer can be obtained in the market. Not only that, but 

 he can adapt the fertilizer to his particular needs, and to the 

 varying needs of the different parts of his farm. He will 

 learn to experiment, and not to be satisfied with some partic- 

 ular kind of fertilizer just because others have said it is good. 

 He buys no waste material, and so reduces the cost of trans- 

 portation. The farmer becomes a scientific farmer, and puts 

 more thought toward the production of better results. 



References : 



1. 1605:131-132. Home-mixing of Fertilizers. 



2. Farmers' Bulletin No. 44 : 22-27. Agricultural vs. Commercial 



Value of Fertilizers. 



3. Farmers' Bulletin No. 44 : 27-28. Home-mixed Fertilizers. 



4. Farmers' Bulletin No. 222 : 5-9. Home-mixing of Fertilizers. 



5. Farmers' Bulletin No 320 : 5-9. Fish Fertilizer. 



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The different garden crops respond differently to the same 

 fertilizer, or, to put it another way, different crops require 

 different fertilizers. So many special examples are given in 

 the Farmers' Bulletins that there will be no mention here, 

 and, moreover, the question is not a general one. Plants 

 seem to react to fertilizers as persons do to medicines. Both 

 fertilizers and medicines do not observe scientific laws, in the 

 exactness of their action, but may require experimentation. 

 There is this difference, however: all plants of the same 

 species react alike to a given fertilizer; with persons, each 

 individual is a special case in his reaction to medicines. 

 References : 



1. Farmers' Bulletin No. 105:12-13. Fertilizers for Garden 



Crops. 



2. Farmers' Bulletin No. 162 : 6-9. Nitrate of Sodium for Gar- 



den Crops. 



