VI COMMENDATIONS. 



2000 pounds. Now if our planting friends experienced so much 

 benefit as their many flattering encomiums show, from so small 

 a value received in proportion to the outlay made, how much 

 more favorable would have been the reports, and how much 

 more satisfactory the state of their money resources, had they 

 received a fair value for the amount paid ? These writers state 

 that there is consumed in the United States to-day five hundred 

 thousand tons of fertilizers at a cost to the consumers of twenty- 

 five millions of dollars. How bright a vista of future prosperity 

 looms up in future for us if we only use our best efforts to cen- 

 tralize this trade, so immense in its young proportion, and direct 

 its regenerating influences over our much divided low country 

 of South Carolina. The larger proportion of our community 

 do not realize how large an influence the possession of these 

 phosphate beds, properly developed, will have on our commercial 

 position, and it will well become us in the future to use some 

 efforts for home prosperity, and devote some time and capital 

 for the proper management of our home institutions. 



NO. Y. 



From the Journal of Applied Cliemistry, published simultane- 

 ously in New York, Philadelphia and Boston : 



They carry a steady lance and strike pretty hard blows, and 

 we should advise every farmer who proposes to buy fertilizers to 

 read this book before he makes too large an investment. An 

 accurate knowledge of the scientific part of this book would save 

 every farmer the time and expense of many useless experiments. 

 There is a large amount of information condensed into a small 

 space, and so far as we have been able to detect from a hasty 

 perusal, this information is carefully selected and correctly given 

 according to the latest and best authorities. Some controversial 

 portions of the work might, perhaps, have found a better place 

 in the columns of influential newspapers, but we do not 'object 

 to them as they add piquancy and spice to the feast the authors 

 have afforded us. It is a pity that a few dishonest manufacturers 

 of fertilizers have brought the business into such ill-repute, and 

 the only remedy would appear to be just such an exposure of 

 the tricks of the trade as is here given. We commend the book 

 to the notice of our agricultural readers. 



The work will be sent by mail, postage paid, to any address, 

 by remitting the price, $1.50. 



Address, WILLIAM H. BRUCKNER, 



Monroe, Michigan. 



Agents wanted in every Township in the United States. Liberal 

 inducements offered. 



