232 AMERICAN MANURES. 



BOWER'S COMPLETE MANURE. 



The above manure, from which samples for 

 analyses were selected, was purchased from 

 Messrs. Dixon, Sharpless & Co.. Philadelphia. 

 It is put up in bags marked 200 Ibs. ; the one pur- 

 chased weighed 190 Ibs., being 10 Ibs. less than 

 it should have weighed, or a deficiency of 100 

 Ibs. to the ton. The mechanical condition of 

 the manure was good. The following quota- 

 tions from the manufacturer's circular will be 

 valuable to the reader, from which he can make 

 his own deductions 



No. 1. " All will of course agree that farm-yard or stable 

 manure is a good fertilizer, yet unless it is properly rotted or 

 prepared, and kept from the washing rains, its good qualities 

 may be much impaired, and within my own experience but few 

 farmers pay enough attention to the important point of having 

 the manure in such a place as to prevent being leached out by 

 rains. Take the best stable manure, however, and make a com- 

 parison by analysis of its virtues with that of an artificial fertil- 

 izer, as the 'Complete Manure,' it is found, estimating the cost 

 (delivered) of farm-yard manure at $5.00 per ton, and the 

 * Complete Manure ' at $60.00, (delivered,) that the actual 

 value of the ' Complete Manure ' to the farmer is more than 

 double its cost, when compared with the very best farm-yard 

 manure." 



No. 2. "It must be borne in mind, that in order to achieve 

 the results obtained by the ' Complete Manure,' a consider- 

 able proportion of the constituents must be in a form to make 

 them be taken up at once by the rootlets of the plant ; that is 

 to say, they must he easily dissolved in the water contained in 

 the soil. It is true, that Nature, among all her other wonders, 

 has provided means to render soluble these constituents, but 

 the process has wisely been made a slow one ; the chemist can 



