Bowker's Special Fertilizers 
^npHE BOWKER FERTILIZER COMPANY is the original and largest manufacturer of special fertilizers in this 
country. It is partly due to its keeping abreast of the times. It was the first to urge the use of potash in mixed fertilizers? 
while many others discouraged the idea. It was the first to publish an agricultural chemical price list which listed German 
potash and other chemicals new to agriculture. It was the first to urge the adoption of a fertilizer inspection law as a 
protection to reputable manufacturers as well as farmers. The Massachusetts law has since been made the basis of 
similar legislation throughout the United States. That the Bowker Company's efforts have been appreciated is shown by 
the fact that its output of special and general fertilizers amounts to more than loo tons for every day in the year. 
Bowker^s Market Garden Fertili2jer» 
This is a brand of Bowker's Special Fertilizers that has met with great 
success in the hands of market gardeners all over New England. The large 
amounts of stable manure (deficient in potash) which market gardeners have 
applied, in many cases have so exhausted the soil of its potash that this in- 
gredient needs to be furnished in larger quantities than common. In our 
Bowker's Market Garden Fertilizer an unusually large amount of potash is 
supplied, together with enough ammonia and phosphoric acid in soluble 
forms to supply what is lacking in most soils on which market garden crops 
have been raised with stable manure. It is a good, honest, active fertilizer, 
and offers to the purchaser a most excellent bargain. 
Bowker's Potato and Vegetable Manure* 
This is a high-grade fertilizer manufactured especially for potatoes, but 
will give good results on any other root crop. It is second only in analysis . 
to our Bowker- Stockbridge Potato Manure. It is sold at a lower price than 
the Stockbridge brand, and is a popular potato fertilizer among those who 
have used it. The demand for it increases steadily, from which it is safe to 
say that it has given excellent results. 
Bowker's Potato Phosphate* 
This is, as its name indicates, a phosphate made particularly for pota- 
toes. It is not so rich as Bowker's Potato Manure, and is therefore sold at 
a lower price. It is intended for use where the soil is rich in organic mat- 
