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concentrated form, as a ton of dirt costs as much freight as the 

 richest ton of fertilizer. 



Your means of judging these are by actual test, and by analy- 

 ses of parties in whom you can place confidence, and the nearer 

 these parties are to your own home the better the security. 



To enable you to understand the uses and values of commer- 

 cial fertilizers, some knowledge of chemistry is absolutely 

 necessary. The education of not one in one hundred farmers 

 is such as to enable him to read and understand a standard 

 scientific work couched in technical language. The object of 

 this pamphlet is to supply the farmer with an abridged trea- 

 tise on Agricultural Chemistry, written in English, without the 

 use of technical terms as far as the use of the same can be 

 avoided, and it is hoped it may serve a good end. 



Much money is spent in printer's ink to publish clap-trap ad- 

 vertisements to aid in the sale of fertilizers. This Company 

 prefers to print for the benefit of its customers a pamphlet con- 

 taining solid information, which, having been copyrighted, can 

 be reprinted from year to year and revised if the farmers appre- 

 ciate the same, and we trust it may be in some part, as it were, 

 " A Poor Richard's Almanac," and known, as such. 



Some articles following will enable you to comprehend the 

 nature of the manufacture of commercial fertilizers and the 

 uses of the same. 



A knowledge of the various soils and properties of the same; 

 the chemistry of plants ; the application of commercial fertili- 

 zers ; the value of domestic manures ; the compost pile and 

 sources from which it may be made up to profit and advantage; 

 together with certain tabulated analyses of soils, plants, and 

 fertilizers. 



Charleston. S. 0., October, 1875. 



