241 FERTILIZERS 



the manurial values of these, which will be sent 

 upon application, and is weU worth the reading. 



The fanner should remember that commercial 

 fertihzers are only to be used to supplement 

 manure, not to take its place, and that when he 

 buys any, it must be the best. He cannot 

 afford anything else. The man who says, " I 

 know my land needs potash, but I cannot afford 

 to buy it," is making a mistake. Suppose he 

 should say " I know my children need bread, 

 but I cannot afford to buy flour!" His neigh- 

 bors would think he had gone crazy. 



It is just as fooKsh to deny his land what it 

 needs. He should get whatever it needs; for 

 if a soil needs any certain ingredient, whether 

 potash, phosphoric acid or nitrogen, it is cheap 

 at a high price, while anything else is dear at 

 a low price. Your soil must be fed as surely as 

 your children must. You can get credit at the 

 store or at the bank to buy fertilizer, when you 

 could not get it to buy an automobile. 



Potash is really one of the cheapest fertihzer 

 elements on the market, but farmers get the 

 idea that it is high because it is present in large 

 quantities in all high-grade fertilizers, and al- 

 most absent from cheap grades. Just as a man's 

 wages cannot be estimated by the number of 

 dollars he gets each week, but rather by the 



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