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facturer of fertilizers can realize as profits two 

 hundred thousand dollars in a year, from the 

 investment of an amount of capital that would 

 barely purchase a form of two hundred acres in 

 some parts of the country, all honest men must 

 admit that a great wrong is perpetrated, and 

 that it cannot be too soon righted. 



One of the objects of this book is to place 

 this business fairly before the public i and, as it 

 furnishes the raw material to the farmer, this 

 raw material should have no advantage over the 

 products of the farm. It should be as closely 

 scrutinized as to quality, and its profits reduced 

 to a legitimate standard. The farmer will be 

 enabled, by the information here given, to select 

 the mafture that will yield him the largest 

 return for the money expended. , 



This of course will place the dishonest manu- 

 facturer of fertilizers in the same category as the 

 dishonest grocer, and he will soon discover from 

 his reduced sales, that he must improve his 

 article or quit the business. 



The farmer can see at a glance the great 

 value of the information here given. The im- 

 portation and manufacture of fertilizers have 

 become a business of great magnitude. Not 

 less than five hundred thousand tons of prepared 

 manures, guanos, bone-dust, and superphosphates 

 of lime, are annually sold in this country, at a 



