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Smaller amounts may be used, thus saving drayage, 

 freight and bagging charges. 



The sale of low grade fertilizers will probably cease 

 when farmers quit buying fertilizers by brand names 

 and at the lowest price per ton regardless of composition. 

 It is hardly to be expected that such fertilizers will not 

 be offered for sale so long as farmers are willing to buy 

 them. 



Out of such a maze of fertilizers offered, how is the 

 farmer to choose for his needs, unless he understands the 

 fundamental principles of soil fertility and the nature 

 of commercial fertilizers and fertilizing materials? It 

 is clearly the duty of the Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion and all other agencies for agricultural instruction 

 to give him in as clear and simple manner as possible 

 this information. 



THE EELATION OF FORESTRY TO 

 AGRICULTURE 



BY 



J. E. Baeton, state Forester. 



That there should be any relation between the pro- 

 duction of agricultural crops and the production of forest 

 crops in an agricultural State, such as Kentucky, does 

 not occur to the average individual, and that there 

 should be any interchange in benfits because of a knowl- 

 edge of such relation between these two crops is a mat- 

 ter which is altogether too lightly touched upon in any 

 discussion either of agriculture or forestry, solely as re- 

 gards their individual merits. It, nevertheless, is a fact 

 that the production of a forest crop on a farm ma,y bear 

 a very intimate relation to the production of the agri- 

 cultural crop thereon, and have distinct bearing on the 

 amount of profit derived from the purely agricultural 

 end of the game. Indeed, it is possible to imagine a sit- 

 uation in which the net gain in any one year would be 

 represented by the value of the products of thfe^ wtfodlot 



