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You can buy the chemicals of any manufacturer of fertil- 

 izers, and you can mix them as you think best. 



Each of the three materials are harmless to handle. They 

 are as easy to mix as corn meal, shorts and cotton-seed. 



The following is a corn mixture that I have recommended 

 to our farmers : — 



Dissolved bone-black, 325 lb3. 



Muriate of potash, 100 lbs. 



Sulphate of ammonia, .... 75 lbs. 



Cost, about $11.00. 500 lbs. 



This is for an acre, with no manure. Put 150 pounds 

 in the hill, being very careful about letting the seed come 

 in contact with it, and sow the remainder broadcast. 



E. F. BowDiTCH of Fraraingham. This is food for how 

 many bushels of corn to the acre ? 



Professor Whitcher. Well, that depends upon the land, 

 whether it is corn land or not, and also on the season. On 

 our farm it produced ninety-seven bushela of ear corn, forty 

 pounds per bushel, and 5,352 pounds of well-cured stover; 

 while the same land, with no fertilizer, gave forty-seven 

 bushels of corn, and 3,266 pounds of stover; that is, for 

 each dollar's worth of fertilizer the increased crop was worth 

 $2.89, — a eood showing:. 



Can Chemical Fertilizers take the Place of Farm- 

 yard Manure? 



I answer, unhesitatingly. Yes ! Can I prove it, do you 

 ask? I think I can. Not as fully as I might desire, but for 

 four years I have had two acres of land under test for this 

 very point. One acre had thirty-three dollars' worth of ma- 

 nure applied in 1885 ; manure charged at $3.50 per cord, — a 

 low price. The other acre has had eleven dollars' worth of 

 chemicals applied yearly, for three years ; so that to-day we 

 have applied just thirty-three dollars to each acre. Now, 

 what is the result ? 



