204 AMERICAN MANURES. 



This fertilizer is represented to be composed 

 of Dissolved Bones, Ammonia and Potash ; and 

 " entirely free from any adulterative matter." 

 The analyses show that it contains a great deal 

 of something that is not accounted for. The 

 large percentage of water might seem unneces- 

 sary to the uninitiated. The reader will notice 

 that there is for more of this substance than 

 Superphosphate of Lime, and if he compares the 

 price of this fertilizer with the value, he will 

 naturally come to the conclusion that it is the 

 66 Magnum Bonum " (the great good) to the 

 manufacturers and dealers, and the " Magnum 

 Malum " (the great evil) to the farmer. 



Messrs. Dugdale & Girvin say that this " Mag- 

 num Bonum is the great GENERATOR and nour- 

 isher of Corn, Oats, Grass, Wheat, Tobacco, and 

 other crops and plants." This must be a most won- 

 derful property of this fertilizer, the inference 

 being that the farmer need not use any seed to pro- 

 duce the above crops the manure itself being a 

 generator. 



There might, however, be a great disadvan- 

 tage connected with its use ; the farmer naturally 

 would have a desire to raise a specified crop, 

 the generator might beget corn when he wanted 

 wheat, or oats when he wanted tobacco, or might 

 produce them all heterogeneously. We make 

 these suggestions for the benefit of Messrs. Dug- 



