No. 4.] COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. 



35 



1735 01 



1,481 18 



$746 17 



The next year shows less expense of ploughing, harvest- 

 ing and threshing of $65. The credit side shows 62 tons, 

 of straw, at $13, $806 ; 862 bushels of rye, at 60 cents, 

 $517.20; leaving a balance on the right side of $653.19. 

 The next year shows a further decrease in cost of plough- 

 ing, harvesting and threshing of $42. Credit : 62 tons of 

 straw, at $13, $806 ; 842 bushels of rye, at 60 cents, $505.20 ; 

 leaving a profit of $683.19. 



The use of commercial fertilizer has been successfully car- 

 ried into the culture of almost every plant known to the 

 department of agriculture of the New England States, and 

 to many it has ceased to be an experiment ; but has become 

 acknowledged to be the only known factor whereby we may 

 be able to cultivate our soils successfully. The time has 

 gone by when a farmer can afford to. keep stock to make 

 manure ; it must show an undoul^ted profit individually to 

 be allowed to occupy a place with us, requiring space, labor 

 and the investment of capital. 



In the use of commercial fertilizer there are some require- 

 ments of knowledge, and to obtain it we require the untir- 

 ing assistance of our State Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 which communicates with us through the issue of their 

 monthly bulletins, that should be in the home of every 

 filmier or tiller of the soil, who not only should receive but 

 carefully read and study them, thereby showing an appre- 

 ciation of the labor, thought and calculations based upon a 

 scientific research by its director, Prof. C. A. Goessmann, 

 whose efforts have not been fully appreciated ])y the farmers 



