mixed" goods, which any farm laborer with a spade can pre- 

 pare, insure him the same results as chemically prepared or 

 predigested goods? A stunted crop, like a stunted calf, rarely 

 amounts to anything. 



Balanced and Specialized Fertilizers 



Well-balanced, specialized fertilizers, containing the right 

 amounts of available nitrogen, in both chemical and organic 

 forms, with an excess of soluble and reverted phosphoric acid, 

 both for fertilizing and catalyzing effects, and the proper amount 

 and right form of potash, all thoroughly blended together and 

 in forms that will not cake, but remain in a drillable condition, 

 and which will act not only in the beginning, but throughout 

 the season (fertilizers based upon the needs of the crop and 

 market requirements), are what the practical farmer should 

 rely upon in growing commercial crops. Above all things, he 

 should avoid unbalanced and improper mixtures that have the 

 defect of one element being insoluble and another element too 

 soluble for successful plant growth. 



Professor Voorhees, of New Jersey, an authority on the sub- 

 ject, recommends applying an abundance of a well-balanced, 

 available fertiHzer, as much as 1,500 or 2,000 pounds to certain 

 hoed crops where no manure or "cover crop" is plowed in. The 

 late Professor Stockbridge emphasized the importance of adapt- 

 ing the fertilizer to the crop, and especially that the fertilizer 

 used should contain the dominant element which that crop 

 required. The expert potato growers of Maine, the market 

 gardeners of Long Island and New Jersey, all follow this practice 

 and are making money. 



The sanest, shrewdest farmers apply ample dressings of 

 well-made, specialized, available fertilizers to insure profitable 

 crop growth, for, after all, it is crop insurance that the practical 

 farmer is after. He takes long chances with the weather, 

 but he takes no chances with the kind of fertilizer he applies, 

 for he knows that an extra dollar expended for the right kind 

 will make just the difference between success and failure. 



What to 

 Avoid 



Crop 

 Insurance 



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