DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



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MICHIGA 



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M A.N" U FACT TREKS 



HOMESTEAD SUPERPHOSPHATE, 



HOMESTEAD COTTON, CORN, A?ID WHEAT GROWER, 



HOMESTEAD T O (3 A C C O C R O W E R , 



Made from pure acid Blood Meat, Bor.e Black, ■d.n'l Po.ash.. 



HOMESTEAD RAV/ BONE MEAL. 



Our w^rks are among the mo>t complete and extensive in the countr>', and have every appliance to enable us to 

 furnish Standard Fertilizers at the lowest price. Our machinerj^ is of modern and improved construction, and our 

 goods are made under the gtiidance of an able chemist, who inspects every lot before being placed on the maiket. 

 As nianuiaciurers of animal charcoal, we have at our hands the most valuable material used in making fertilizers 

 — viz: Bone Black Dust. This fertilizing substance contains eighty percent, of phosphate of lime, against fifty- 

 five per cent, contained in raw bones ; and its well known value commands so high a price in the European markets 

 that but very few manufacturers of fertilizers in this country use it. Although the Homestead ferti.izer costs us 

 more i > manufacture than if prepared of the materials generally used, we shall continue its present high standard, 

 and place on the market a genuine pure Bone Black Phosphate. 



Redfokd, Mich., June 13th, 1880. 

 MicHiGAX Carbox "Works, Detroit, Mich. : 



GentltTHtn — The enclosed is a photograph of Wheat which was grown on my farm. 

 Each wai. cut from a space of ground five feet square, and put in with a nine-hoe 

 feru.izer drill, and seven inches apart. This is showing a less dilTerence than the 

 field will average. This was the third crop of wheat grown on the same ground, the 

 soil being sand and clay loam. Each had the same chance, with one excepiion — the 

 best had at the rate •! two hundred pounds to the acre of Homestead Superphos- 

 phate. 



This wheat wai cut the nth day of June, 1880, and weighed at the time of cutting, 

 6^ pouadU and 3 p3UQds respectively. 



I hereky certiiv that the above statement is correct, according to the best of my 

 knawledge and belief. HUGH HOUK. 



9w»ra to and subscribed bef«re me, this 13th day of August, 18S0. 



ANSEL B. PIERCE. 

 Notarj' PubUc, Wayne Co., Mich. 

 This wheat was examined, cut and weighed by us, on the nth day of June, 1880. 



JAMES APPLIXG, 

 ALFRED HARRIS, 

 ANSEL B. PIERCE. 



Michigan Carbon Works: Medina, Orleans Co.. N. Y.. August jih, 1879. 



Gentlemen — Enclosed please find a photograph of some barley. '1 his barley was 

 grown on A. H. Poler's farm, four miles south of Medina, Orleans Co., New Yo.k. 



I made a frame four feet square and set it in the standing grain on the day of its 

 being cut. I then cut and gathered all that stood within the frame of each, where 

 there vras phosphate and where there was no phosphate. I let it lay in the sun one 

 day to cure, then weighed each bundle as you see it on the photogr.-.ph. 

 _ The phosphate v/as put down with the seed with a fertilizing diill, the teeth being 

 six inches apart. These bundles were cut side by side, onlj' six inches ap.i;t. The 

 one on the left of the photograph had no phosphate, and weighed twelve ou; ces ; the 

 one on the right had one hundred and forty pounds of the Homestead Supe!ph,.s]-hate 

 to the acre, and weighed two pounds and fourteen ounces to the four feet square. 

 This is correct. 



A. H. Poler also experimented on com, potatoes ani. winter wheat, with as good re- 



':3 oneach as on his barley. Of course he has not harvested his ccrn ; but it stands 

 :een inches higher than the lest of the corn, and earing one-half better. 



Yours, respectfully, GLO. W. POLER. 



ACTUAL RESULT AT OUR SEED FARM ON LETTUCE SEED. 



Homestead produced 583 lbs. per acre. iiG lbs. of Lettuce Seed, at §1.25 S145 00 



Where none was used 467 " " ! 560 lbs. of Homestead, at $40 per ton 11 20 



Difference in favor of Homestead 116 " " ' Actual profit per acre $'3380 



D. M. FERRY & C^. 



***Send for Circulars, giving full reports of results, and all particulars in regard to use. 



2^°° In places where we have no authorized agents we v.'ill send sample barrels of 200 lbs. Home- 

 stead Superphosphate on receipt of $4.00; Cotton, Corn and Wheat Grower, $5.00 ; Homestead To- 

 bacco Grower, $6.00. 



Prepared Expressly for Lawns, Flower Qardens, Pot and H:ov.se Plants. 



DIRECTIONS. — Use three tablespo mfuls of the manure to a gallon of water. S'eep twelve hours before 

 usi»g, and keep well stirred while being applied. Do not apply oftener than once in two weeks. 



( Box containing 10 lbs $100 



PRICES,-^ ;; '; 25 lbs 200 



' ' . " 5olbs. 400 



S«nt an>-where in the United States or Canada, by express or freight, on receipt of cash orders. 

 <^ood ^^greuts TVanted in livery To>%^n. 



