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remedy against this evil in their own hands, which, better than any 

 legislative measures, can at once stamp it out. 



Let first-class manufacturers be of less difficult approach to the 

 real consumers of their produce, and let them at once pass over the 

 " middlemen " who find in adulteration such ready means of making 

 profit. Let them now organize, in every region within reasonable 

 access of their works, some kind of farmers' commercial club or 

 "fertilizer syndicate" (?) with an energetic president and capable 

 secretary. Let it be the duty of these two officials to discover and 

 to tabulate the actual requirements of every member, in all kinds of 

 manures, so that at proper seasons and in convenient time they may 

 be manufactured in one batch. 



Let some good chemist be chosen by the club on the one side 

 and by the manufacturer on the other, and arrangements be made 

 for contradictory sampling. Let the deliveries all be made at the 

 same period, and allow the sampling to be performed in the presence 

 of a chosen representative of the club, when the manure has been 

 loaded and is ready for delivery. 



Let analyses of each parcel be made by the respective chemists, 

 and in case of a sensible difference between them, by a third chemist 

 mutually agreed upon and whose decision would be final. 



Let each member furnish to the club in some form agreed upon 

 at a general meeting of their whole body, a suitable guarantee for 

 the due payment pro rata, of the portion of manure supplied and 

 invoiced to him by the club. 



Finally, let the club itself arrange with its local banker, by a 

 transfer of the securities which it has received, to guarantee the pay- 

 ment of the manufacturers' invoices in due season, say at four or six 

 months, from the date of delivery. 



The advantages of some such a system as this, appear to us to be 

 very striking, and we feel certain that its adoption would be pro- 

 ductive of mutual benefit and general satisfaction. 



