Soluble Animal Fertilizer is simply the blood and bone 
with all the bone thoroughly dissolved and the potash added to 
balance it and make it right for quick-growing crops. 
Bowke/s Fine Ground Bone* 
Made at the Brighton Slaughter-Houses. 
This bone is manufactured from the waste bone (chiefly the head bones) of 
the cattle and sheep killed at the Brighton slaughter-houses, where i ,500 to 2,000 
animals are slaughtered daily. It is practically raw ground bone, the only 
thing extracted from it being the grease, which is of no value as a fertilizer. 
After the grease is extracted, the bone is dried and ground in its pure state. 
Much of the bone which is sold nowadays has nearly all the glue extracted, 
which is like skimming the cream from milk; it is the richest part. Some 
manufacturers, after extracting the glue, reinforce their bone by grinding in 
hoof meal or horn waste, which suppHes the ammonia that the glue has re- 
moved, and makes the bone show up better in the analysis, but these things 
are insoluble and worthless in the soil, and the bone therefore is not as good 
for fertilizing purposes, 
Bowker's Bone is not treated in this way, but contains all the properties 
of raw ground bone, rich in natural ammonia and free from all adulterations 
of whatever kind or nature. To prove this we shall be glad to show any one 
our works, where they will find no glue process in operation. This bone is not 
as white as bleached bone, which is picked up about the pastures, or as the 
bone from which glue has been extracted, but actually contains in value many 
dollars per ton more of available plant-food, and a better crop is produced. 
Bowker^s Bone and Potash* Square I s\ | Brand* 
It is unnecessary to speak of the value of bone, for it has been used from 
time immemorial upon all sorts of crops. Of course, it is not active, like dis- 
solved bone or superphosphate, but it has been taken out of the soil by ani- 
mals, and it is one of Nature's ways of building up the soil by returning it. 
We add to'it a good percentage of potash, and for this reason it will be found 
especially valuable for seeding down grass-land, and also in New Jersey and 
Western New York on fruit-trees and small fruit, such as grapes, peaches, 
pears, etc., and in Eastern New York for hops, where the land is rich in or- 
ganic matter or rich by previously manuring, — and, in fact, in all places 
where bone and potash are needed. It is a splendid substitute for bone and 
ashes, and much cheaper, and as it is a sensible combination, it is becoming 
very popular. 
Bowker's General Fertili^^ers* 
The following well-known brands of fertilizers have been so long on the 
market, and have given so good results in the field on all kinds of farm crops, 
that it is not necessary to call attention to them here more than to mention 
their names : 
Bowker's Hill and Drill Phosphate. 
Bowker's Farm and Garden Phosphate. 
Bowker's Sure Crop Phosphate. 
Bowker's Dissolved Bone Phosphate (with or without 
Potash). 
Bowker's Harvest Bone. 
Bowker's Wheat Grower. 
