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Food for are given, it Is "readily seen that the consumer of these 



^^^"^^ "complete fertiHzers " pays on the average |8. 57 per ton 



^^ more than would buy the same amount of plant food in as 



good, and in the case of Nitrogen, better form in unmixed 



chemicals. 



Statistics gathered by the stations show that over one 

 million dollars was spent in 1 891, in the State of New Jersey 

 alone, for " complete fertilizers." Considering that the 

 average "complete fertilizer" costs 25 per cent more than 

 it Is worth, it is evident that the farmers of New Jersey 

 paid 1250,000 more for their fertilizers than they got value 

 in return. And this state of things Is not confined to the 

 State of New Jersey. It is the same all over the country. 

 The farmers of this country are paying out millions of 

 dollars annually to the manufacturers of " complete ferti- 

 lizers," which they could very easily save by the exercise of 

 a little Intelligence in buying their plant food. 



T, c> Would vou not think a man very unwise 



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., who should buy somebodv s Lomplete 



Money on „ jttj''. u-u- x, i. 



P ... Prepared J^ood, at a high price, when he 



wanted feed for his horses, instead of going 



Into the market and buying corn, oats and hay, at market 



prices ? 



The " Complete Prepared Food " would probably be 

 composed of corn, oats and hay mixed together, and the 

 price would be perhaps twice as much as the corn, oats and 

 hay would cost separately. It Is the same with plant food. 

 Ton should buy your plant food in the best and cheapest forms, 

 and feed it to the plants separately or mixed together as you 

 prefer. You can buy available Nitrogen in Nitrate of Soda 

 for less than 15 cents per pound. In so-called " complete 

 fertilizers," Nitrogen costs from 20 to 30 cents per pound, 

 and even then It is often In an insoluble and unavailable 

 form. 



Nitrate of Soda is at the present time the cheapest and best 

 form in which to buy available Nitrogen. 



You can buy soluble phosphoric acid In superphosphate 

 of lime, made from rock phosphate, for about 6 cents per 

 pound (the superphosphate costing from $15 to ^17 per 

 ton, retail), or in bone-black, which is made from bones 

 that have been used during the process of refining sugar, 

 for about 7 cents per pound. These are, I think, at present, 



