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the brand depending upon the price the farmer is vviUing to pay. 

 Many of these fertiHzers were high grade but the farmer should 

 consult the plant food guarantee and not the name in selecting 

 fertilizer. Those that were sold for corn and potato, tobacco and 

 potato, vegetables, root crops and potatoes, etc., either do not 

 meet the requirements of these crops, or else the purchaser is 

 wasting money in buying excesses of plant food. 



Some manufacturers put out two or three different brands made 

 from the same goods and guaranteed the same. Thus we will 

 find Dixie Cotton Fertilizer and Corn King Guano on the market 

 with the same guarantee bagged from the same pile of goods, and 

 sold for different crops. Sometimes two different brand names 

 are used for the same material to be sold for one crop. For 

 example, Golden Imperial and Special Mixture may be sacked 

 from the same material, carry the same guarantee, and be sold 

 for one crop. The writer has seen two agents, one a merchant 

 and the other a farmer, selling the same fertilizer under different 

 names in the same village. The farmer, who was the least suc- 

 cessful in disposing of his lot thought and I guess still thinks 

 that the merchant had a better brand. These fertilizers of course 

 sold for the same price and the merchant sold three times as 

 nmch as the farmer, because he was a bit more popular and had a 

 better stand. So you see the brand name helps to sell fertilizer. 

 The farmer should buy on the plant food content and not by the 

 name or per ton. 



The manufacturers also often sell superphosphates made from 

 rock phosphates under the name of dissolved bone, and mixtures 

 of superphosphates (made from rock) and potash, as dissolved 

 bone and potash. We have learned that dissolved bone contains 

 nitrogen and phosphoric acid and superphosphates made from 

 rock only carry phosphoric acid. So when dissolved bone or a dis- 

 solved bone and potash are sold without any nitrogen guaranteed 

 you can rest assured that the material was made from rock. 

 However, the soluble phosphoric acid from rock superphosphates 

 is just as valuable as that from dissolved bone, and the reverted 

 is ])erhai)s about equalh- valuable from these two phosjihates.* 



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