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inert substance should manifestly have no place 

 in a high-priced fertilizer, the very name of 

 which implies that it does not contain it. 



The products of the farm are closely scrutin- 

 ized, and the quality graded, when they are 

 brought to the market, and from this cause many 

 a farmer has not realized from his produce as 

 much as he anticipated. No farmer is allowed 

 to sell the chaff with the wheat, nor portions of 

 the cob with the corn. Butter must be properly 

 made, as the quality fixes the price ; and should 

 there be an extra amount of salt used, dishonest 

 motives are at once attributed to the farmer, as 

 intending to make up weight; and should the 

 same butter be found a little deficient in weight, 

 it is at once confiscated. " It is a bad rule that 

 wont work both ways." Hence, should the far- 

 mer want crude mineral phosphate, it should be 

 sold to him as such, at a cost of $12 to $20 a 

 ton, and not be palmed upon him under the 

 false name of superphosphate at $40 to $60 per 

 ton. We have hitherto dealt in generalities. 

 Having spoken of frauds practised, in the mass, 

 we shall now treat them in detail, and we 

 hope the reader will examine the analyses, and 

 carefully compare them with the statements 

 of these manufacturers. If this be done, our re- 

 marks about their frauds will add no additional 

 force to the damning testimony which they 

 themselves have furnished. 



