Canada Wood Ashes. 
NATURE'S PLANT-FOOD. 
" Why don't you handle ashes?" has been often asked of us. Heretofore we have not handled them because of the uncertainty of their composition and 
the difBculty of getting supplies such as we felt warranted in offering our trade. We have, however, now arranged to have our own men collect them and ship 
them from Canada. 
Every one knows the value of ashes. They are no experiment. As is well known, ashes are not a complete, balanced fertilizer. They lack ammonia and 
phosphoric acid, but they contain potash and lime, both of which are essential not only as plant-food, but also as sweeteners of the soil and solyents of other 
plant-food ingredients. So far as they supply potash and lime they are "nature's plant-food." These things have been extracted from the soil by the trees, 
and now we return them in the shape of ashes. They are considered especially valuable as a top-dressing for grass-land and lawns, and also for use in con- 
nection with stable manure, or where the soil is rich from previous manuring, but needs something to quicken and sweeten it. 
We solicit inquiries concerning ashes in carload lots or in smaller quantities, to be shipped direct from Canada, or from our warehouses in Boston or New York. 
THOMAS PHOSPHATE SLAG. 
In the manufacture of steel under certain processes, a by-product is created which contains 17 to 18% of phosphoric acid. This slag is being used in some 
places as a fertilizer where phosphoric acid only is required, but as it contains neither ammonia nor potash, it is of course not a complete fertilizer, and does not 
replace in the soil these two important ingredients of plant-food. Nevertheless it affords a good and fairly cheap, source of phosphoric acid, and if used in 
connection with some source of potash, say wood ashes for example, and some source of ammonia, like sulphate of ammonia or dried blood, it will make a 
complete fertilizer, good for many crops; or if the farmer is certain that his land requires nothing but phosphoric acid, it makes a good fertiUzer for him to use 
alone. It is furnished in the form of an exceedingly fine, dry powder, and is packed in bags. 
We offer it under our well-known guarantee as to strength, and stand ready to make good in value any deficiency that may be found in this respect. 
BOWKER'S FISH FERTILIZERS. 
Along the whole sea-coast from the eastern tip of Maine to the southern point of Florida, there is hardly a farmer who- does not realize the value of fish 
as a fertilizer. The first settlers from the other countries found the Indians using it under their corn, and from that time to the present it is safe to say that 
very few pounds of fish have gone to waste for want of use as a fertilizer. Fish furnishes ammonia in large quantities, and bone also. We supply in our fish 
fertilizers either the fish and fish-bones ground fine and ready for use, or mixed with potash to make complete fertihzers for all crops. The richness of these 
fertilizers in organic ammonia makes them particularly valuable for crops that should make a large growth of foliage in a short time, 
BRANDS, 
Bowker's Dry Fish. Bowker's Fish and Potash " D " Brand. 
Bowker's Fine Ground Dry Fish. Bowker's Bristol Fish and Potash. 
Bowker's Fish and Potash O Brand. Bowker's Gloucester Fish and Potash. 
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