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Food for Two Good Home Mixtures. 



Plants 



I. Mixture for General Use. (Connecticut Experiment Station.) 



Dissolved bone-black 834 lbs. 



Tankage 666 



Sulphate of ammonia 208 



Muriate of potash 2g2 



2,000 lbs. 



II. Mixture for General Use. (Connecticut Experiment Station.) 



Tankage 450 lbs. 



Sulphate of ammonia 170 



Dissolved bone-black 1,000 



Muriate of potash 280 ." 



Bone (meal) 100 



2,000 lbs. 



"The actual cost in many, if not all, of these cases has 

 been very considerably reduced by special rates which are 

 given where a number of farmers give a cash order for a car 

 lot or more. 



"The averao-e cost of materials in these home-mixed 

 fertilizers has been thirty-four dollars and twenty-three cents 

 per ton delivered at the purchaser's freight station. Two 

 dollars will fully cover the cost of screehing and mixing. 

 (From a dollar to a dollar and a half is the estimate of those 

 who have done the work.) The average valuation has been 

 thirty-four dollars and eighty-five cents per ton. On the 

 basis of these figures the average difference between cost and 

 valuation has been less than six per cent. In factory-mixed 

 goods it has averaged in round numbers eighteen per cent. 



"There is no longer any question as to the expediency of 

 home-mixing in many cases. From such raw materials as 

 are in our markets, without the aid of milling machinery, 

 mixtures can be and are annually made on the farm which 

 are uniform in quality, fir^e and dry, and equal in all respects 

 to the best ready made fertilizers." 



Amounts of Manure Produced by Farm Animals. 



From Bulletin 27, Cornell University Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. 



In the experiment with cows, eighteen 



Jersey and Holstein grades in milk were 



kept in their places during the whole twenty-four hours,. 



