Fertilisers as an Aid to 

 Profitable Farming 



*' The more you give to a field the more it returns to you." 



Old Roman Maxim. 



PART I. 



THE object of these pages is, by a simple state- 

 ment of facts, to assist those engaged in Agri- 

 culture in the selection of suitable methods of 

 manuring so that they may obtain the most 

 profitable returns from their land. 



It is not always the largest crops that are 

 the most profitable. The cost of the manures 

 employed may, through injudicious 

 selection, be greater than the extra Largest 

 yield is worth. Artificial Manures, crops not 

 now popularly known as " Ferti- always most 

 Users/' must be used intelligently to profitable, 

 secure the most economical results. 



During recent years numerous recommenda- 

 tions have been published, indicating that suc- 

 cessful farming can only be carried on by the 

 use of certain incomplete fertilisers ; for example, 

 by nitrogen in the form of nitrate of soda, 

 sulphate of ammonia, or the newer forms 

 derived from the air, by phosphates from basic 

 slag, and so forth. Such statements only con- 



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