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TheWecUy Florists' Review. 



105 



POTASH 



ft When I was a boy, 40 years ago, my father was the largest manufac- 

 turer of Potash in Canada. He had the best Ashery I ever saw, and I think 

 I have seen most of the good ones and a lot of the poor ones, or one-horse 

 affairs. I will give you a short slcetch of how his business was run : 



He kept 4 teams and 4 men collect- 

 ing Ashes every day In the year, these 

 Ashes were put In bins In the ashery, 

 and where 2 men were kept to leach 

 Ashes and boil down into Potash; 

 there were 7 large vats to hold Ashes, 

 these 7 held 22 tons of Unleached 

 Ashes. They were filled once a week, 

 and never allowed to be without water 

 in them, which leached lye down 

 through them into a receiving kettle. 

 It was then pumped up into a stor- 

 age tank, carried by pipes to boiling 

 down kettles, with taps so that it 

 could be fed as required, and boiled 

 down into Potash. Now one of these 

 men came to work at 4 in the morning, 

 the other later. The latter worked till 

 9 at night, in that way it could be 

 kept going 24 hours a day. Now, he 

 got off his Ashery 7 barrels of Potash 

 a week. The barrels held 600 lbs. of 

 Potash, which gave him 4,200 lbs. of 

 Potash out of 22 tons Ashes. He sold 

 his leached Ashes in the United States 

 for Fertilizer. You may say, did he 

 always get 7 barrels out of these 

 Ashes? Well, when I say 7 barrels I 

 mean 7 barrels was the average; if he 

 had 6% one week he would get an- 

 other week IVi. or 7%. The barrels 

 were made up of Coolers and it took 

 2 coolers to make a barrel, so the 

 average was 7 barrels week in and 

 week out as they rolled by. 



The Potash was shipped to Montreal 

 and sold according to market value, 

 which ran from 5 cents a lb. to 5%, 

 ^%, ^M S'nd sometimes 6 cents a lb. 

 Now figure the per cent of Potash he 

 got by leaching and compare to tests 

 shown by experiment stations. Why, 

 they try to shove it down my neck, 

 my No. 1 Canadian Unleached Hard- 

 wood Ashes test 4%, 5, 5%, 6, 6% 

 Potash. You know how much I be- 

 lieve in their tests, don't you? 



My No. 1 Canadian Unleached 

 Hardwood Ashes of today are collected 

 just the same as my father's Ashes 

 were collected 30 and 40 years ago, 

 are burnt out of the same kind of 

 wood, and are not manufactured. The 

 process of taking 1 week (7 days) to 

 leach Potash out of Ashes may pro- 

 duce more Potash than Chemists show 

 them to contain. Another point to 

 consider, after this large per cent of 

 Potash has been taken out of these 

 Ashes, the same chemist will tell us 

 leached Ashes contain 1 to 1% Potash. 

 These leached Ashes also contain lime, 

 etc., which makes them a valuable 

 fertilizer. If a farmer can buy leached 

 Ashes at a profit, he has to pay as 

 much freight on a car of leached 



Ashes as on a car of my No. 1 Cana- 

 dian Unleached Hardwood Ashes. 



It seems to me, my No. 1 Un- 

 leached Ashes, with all the Potash 

 in them, is the greatest money 

 maker any grower can buy, for he 

 gets everything in them. His soil 

 has plenty of time to leach the 

 Potash out. My No. 1 Canadian Un- 

 leached Hardwood Ashes will make 

 your crop increase not only first 

 year, but for years to follow. You 

 can see the results. 



I wrote one learned, high paid gen- 

 tleman, and asked if he could ex- 

 plain to me why my No. 1 Canadian 

 Unleached Hardwood Ashes did not 

 test 10 to 12 per cent Potash, and 

 what they would produce if leached. 

 He wrote me a very nice letter in 

 reply, stating that what my father 

 made was crude Potash, and the test 

 he gave was KjO, or A, Absolute 

 Pure. Well, crude Potash sold for 5 

 and 6 cents a lb. We had to test 

 No. 1 Potash to get that price. All 

 I have to say about it is, my No. 1 

 Canadiaji Unleached Hardwood 

 Ashes will give better results than 

 his or any other test will give them 

 the credit of doing, and $500 worth 

 of my ashes will produce a larger 

 crop than $500 worth of any manu- 

 factured fertilizer will produce, side 

 by side on the same farm. I have 

 had my customers write me, that my 

 ashes have doubled their crops. 



Give me an order for a car and 

 try it on your own work, watch re- 

 sults, and you will be a regular cus- 

 tomer of mine. 



I do not own an Ashery, never 

 leached my Ashes, but have teams 

 scattered in different parts of Can- 

 ada collecting No. 1 Canadian Un- 

 leached Hardwood Ashes, and do a 

 strictly exporting business. Nothing 

 but the best is handled, and shipped 

 .just as collected. All I do with them 

 after they come into my storehouses 

 is to sift them to remove charcoal 

 or other dirt that may be thrown 

 into the stoves, such as dishes, 

 broken glass, burnt bricks falling 

 down out of the fireplaces. All this 

 rubbish is removed so as to have 

 my Ashes go out properly, and save 

 freight on such stuff that would be 

 of no use for fertilizer. 



Shipped in bulk in tight box cars, 

 car lots only. Shipped in any quan- 

 tity desired, put up in bags, car lots 

 or smaller lots, as required. 



FOR LAWNS— 1 ton to acre No. 1 

 Canadian Unleached Hardwood Ashes 

 will give you a beautiful rich green 

 lawn. GARDENS— 1 ton to acre will 

 give you abundant crop. OATS— 36 

 bushels to acre requires 24 lb. phoc 

 acid, and 80 lb. potash, 1,000 lbs. No. 

 1 Canadian Unleached Hardwood Ashes 

 will supply the plant food required to 

 grow. HAY— 1 ton No. 1 Canadian 

 Unleached Hardwood Ashes will supply 

 plant food to grow 3 tons Hay to acre. 

 WHEAT, figuring 30 bushels to acre- 

 500 lbs. No. 1 Canadian Unleached 

 Hardwood Ashes will furnish plant 

 food required. ORCHARDS— 35 trees 

 to acre bearing, should have 1,500 

 lbs. to 2,000 lbs. No. 1 Canadian Un- 

 leached Hardwood Ashes to acre to get 

 good results. BARLEY— Crop 1,000 

 lbs. Ashes to acre. MAIZE— 1,500 to 

 2,000 lbs. No. 1 Ashes to acre will give 

 you a crop. POTATOES— 1 ton my 

 Ashes to the acre. CABBAGE— Sprin- 

 kle with Ashes, it will keep the worms 

 off the plants; dust it on. 



If the land is well tilled, you will 

 have abundant crops if you use No. 1 

 Canadian Unleached Hardwood Ashes. 



Trusting to have the privilege of quoting you my price, delivered at your 

 nearest railway station, I am. Yours truly, 



GEO. STEVENS, Peterboro, Ont, Can. 



WtT'P' S. — The only trouble I have Is to get people to write and place trial orders— once I get them to buy my 

 goods, I feel no competition, for the quality of ashes I handle Is so superior to ashes some dealers will handle 

 that one ton of mine Is easily worth five tons of some others. 



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