Food for j^Q U^e Farmers of Little Europe More Intelligent 

 — Than Those of America ? 



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It certainly seems so. The English and European 

 farmers instead of buying their Nitrogen in complete fertilizers 

 and paying over 20 cents per pound for it, use annually over 

 eight hundred thousand (800,000) tons of Nitrate of Soda 

 as a fertilizer, while yet only a few thousand American 

 farmers are using it. 



American farmers, gardeners and fruit growers are sup- 

 posed to be ready to "catch on" to a good thing. And 

 as soon as our Agricultural Papers let them know the facts in 

 regard to the great value of Nitrate of Soda as a Fertilizer our 

 farmers will not be slow to use it. The reason why so little 

 is said about Nitrate of Soda is simply owing to the fact that 

 there is "no money in it for the trade." It is an article that 

 everybody can sell, and consequently no one can afford to 

 advertise it. The manufacturers of so-called "complete fertil- 

 izers" pay the agricultural papers large sums of money every 

 year for advertisings and consequently the editors do not like 

 to publish anything that might injure this trade. The real 

 friends of agriculture, however, will be pleased to know 

 that there is a decided increase in the demand for Nitrate 

 of Soda in this country. As soon as the farmers demand it, 

 the importers and dealers in fertilizers will be glad to keep 

 the Nitrate for sale, and sooner or later will advertise it. 

 In the meantime, if your agricultural paper does not tell you 

 about Nitrate of Soda and how to use it, take a paper that 

 keeps up with the science and practice of the age. 



^, ^ „ Some interesting experiments were con- 



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ducted at the rurdue University Agricul- 



^ ^ ^ tural Experimental Station, at Lafayette, 



Indiana, to determine the best form of 



Nitrogen for wheat. We quote the results of the experiments 



from Bulletin No. 36: 



"The forms of Nitrogen selected were Nitrate of Soda, azotine or dried 

 blood, and sulphate of ammonia. The main object was a comparison of 

 Nitrate of Soda with dried blood, and the sulphate of ammonia was intro- 

 duced into the series for comparative purposes. The forms of Nitrogen used 

 in nearly all commercial fertilizers are dried blood and the Nitrogen of organic 

 compounds like bone meal or cotton-seed meal. 



"It is well established that Nitrate of Soda is superior to sulphate of 

 ammonia for wheat, but comparatively little seems to be known of the relative 



