n6 Colcord's System of 



known. Those that are supplied from the air, 

 those that are volatile, and those that are in- 

 organic, with formulae for different crops, are 

 now accessible to farmers who will take the 

 pains to investigate and learn to experiment; 

 and any one can buy the individual raw mate- 

 rials which his land or crops require, and learn 

 to draw largely from nature instead of all from 

 the manufacturer, and can compound them to 

 his mind, or have them made available for use 

 and compounded in the required proportions. 



Mr. Benjamin Randall, Chelsea Street, East 

 Boston, a thoroughly reliable miller of many 

 years' experience in the business, has done 

 work of this kind for me with satisfactory re- 

 sults. The gain supposed to be made in this 

 way is by bringing the producer and consumer 

 together, saving the profits of the middleman. 



Those who cannot designate what they want 

 would do well to try the complete fertilizer 

 made by J. A. Tucker & Co., 13 Doane Street, 

 Boston, known as the. Bay State Superphos- 

 phates. I have used it for my corn crops, with 

 very good results. 



What all farmers should do is to make the 

 most of their manure piles. They should feed 

 for manure as well as milk, which can be done 

 conjointly with increased profit. The manure 



