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We cannot get it rapidly or universally enough from 

 the atmosphere and unless we restore these losses our 

 soils will become poorer and poorer and less and less 

 productive. By the rational use o£ Chilean Nitrate 

 our plantations and farms could add many thousands 



Quick and Luxuriant Growth o£ Shrubbery, Produced in 

 Two Seasons by the Use of Nitrate. New Jersey. 



of bales of cotton and many thousands of bushels of 

 wheat to our annual crops. The necessary Nitrate 

 tonnage from Chile would produce corresponding 

 outbound tonnage for our railways of increased agri- 

 cultural products. The sale of the products would 

 bring greater prosperity to our farmers and to our 

 factories and incidentally our food supplies would be 

 helpfully increased. The west coast of South 



