Food for answer the purpose. Screening is also advisable if suitable 

 Plant> apparatus is at hand. It is not claimed that the buying of 

 110 raw materials and mixing at home is the best and cheapest 

 method of getting fertilizers under all conditions; however, 

 the important point in favor of the system will bear repeat- 

 ing, viz. : 



"i. That a definite knowledge of the quality of the ma- 

 terials is secured ; and 



"2. That where farmers know what they want, and 

 unite in purchasing car lots, there is a decided saving in the 

 cost of plant food." 



The elaborate investigations of the New Jersey Experi- 

 ment Station plainly indicate that there is a decided saving 

 in the cost of plant food by buying the unmixed raw materials 

 and mixing them at home. 



Farmers and farmers' clubs should give the method a 

 practical trial. They will have the ready co-operation of 

 their State experiment stations in so far as it may be neces- 

 sary to test by analyses the materials to be used. 



A matter of paramount importance in purchasing raw 

 materials for home mixture is to take advantage of market 

 fluctuations in laying in a season's supply. Marked varia- 

 tions in cost occur, and a saving of from 10 to 20 per cent, 

 is often the result of buying early in the year before the 

 spring work has fully begun, and there is no better time for 

 mixing than during the idle winter months. 



Two Good Home Mixtures. 



I. Mixture for General Use. (Connecticut Experiment Station.) 



Dissolved bone-black 834 Ibs. 



Tankage 666 " 



Sulphate of ammonia 208 ' 



Muriate of potash 293 * 



2,000 Ibs. 

 II. Mixture for General Use. (Connecticut Experiment Station.) 



Tankage 450 Ibs. 



Sulphate of ammonia 170 ' 



Dissolved bone-black 1,000 ' 



Muriate of potash 280 



Bone (meal) 100 " 



2,000 Ib*. 



