POTASH PAYS 



| MERICAN farmers and fruit growers are rightly 

 regarded as the most intelligent, enterprising, and 

 prosperous of their class. Our farmers make a suc- 

 cess of their business, because they are up-to-date and ever 

 ready and quick to adopt the latest improvements and the 

 newest methods. They take advantage of the teachings 

 of science, and make practical use of recent discoveries, 

 whereby they increase the fertility of their lands and gather 

 large and profitable crops. 



It is no wonder, then, that our farmers in California and 

 other States now pay so much attention to the important sub- 

 ject of supplying plant food to their different lands. They 

 not only know, but they have found out that it is necessary 

 to put back into the soil those substances which have been 

 taken out year after year by their crops. Science has shown 

 that potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen are continually 

 used up from the soil by growing crops. Unless these sub- 

 stances are returned in the form of fertilizers, the farmer's 

 lands will surely and steadily lose their productiveness, 

 and sooner or later his yields of grains, or fruits, or vege- 

 tables, as the case may be, will become less and less. 



No matter how rich the soil may be, the result is the 

 same, when crop after crop is gathered from the same land. 

 And so when a farmer is asked: " Why do you fertilize your 

 land?" He at once replies "To feed my crops/' Fertilizers 



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