In buying always consider the percentage of available Food for 

 fertility. Plants 



The various "brands" of fertilizers are composed, for *s 

 the most part, of substances such as plaster, fillers, super- 

 phosphate, etc., which can be manufactured for much less 

 than the prices charged for these substances in so-called "com- 

 plete fertilizers." The freight charges on these are just as 

 high as on the essential constituents, so that every extra hun- 

 dred weight of "filler" is useless expense. 



Cost of Transportation of Fertilizers. 



A striking illustration of the difference in the cost of 

 transportation by four different ways is given below: 



Cost of Transportation per Ton. 



Horse power, 5 miles $1.25 



Electric power, 25 miles 1.25 



Steam cars, 250 miles 1.25 



Steamships on the lakes 1,000 miles 1.25 



RETABULATION SHOWS THAT: 

 $1.25 WILL HAUL A TON 



5 miles on a common road, 

 T.2 l /2 to 15 miles on a well-made stone road, 



25 miles on a trolley road, 

 250 miles on a steam railway, 

 1,000 miles on a steamship. 



It will be seen that the same amount of money it takes 

 to haul a given amount of produce five miles on a public 

 highway of the United States will pay the freight for 250 

 miles on a railroad and 1,000 miles on a steamship line on 

 the lakes. This is too great a difference, as will be admitted 

 by all, and when we think of the fact that the railroad com- 

 panies are ever at work repairing and improving their high- 

 ways while the farmer is apparently so little awake to his own 

 interests in regard to furnishing himself with better roads, we 

 wonder why it is. The lesson seems plain and clear, and, as 

 farmers, let us continue to aid the good road movement 

 throughout the country. 



Nitrate of Soda is essentially a seaboard article; sup- 

 plies at interior points are not always available, hence the 

 ports of entry are indicated to you as the best sources of sup- 

 ply. 



In ordering Nitrate of Soda make the request that, in 



