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or 9Z. 3s. 10c?. per ton, carriage paid to stations 3 and ?jk miles 
distant from the farm. 
The compound manure marked No. 2 was sold at 13Z. per 
ton cash, or 14/. per ton payable in November. 
It will be seen that the manure marked No. 1 contained, in 
round numbers, 5 per cent, less soluble phosphate of lime, and 
1\ per cent, less insoluble phosphate of lime than the purchased 
compound manure No, 2, sold at 13Z. a ton. On the other hand, 
the latter contained 1 per cent, less ammonia, and 13 per cent, 
less nitrate of soda, than the manure which was produced on 
the farm at a cost of 9/. 3s. 10c?. The value of the excess of the 
phosphates in No. 2 amounts to about 18s., and the value of the 
excess of ammonia and nitrate of soda in No. 2 compared with 
No. 1 amounts to about 37s. per ton ; consequently the mixture 
of sulphate of ammonia, superphosphate, bone-meal, and nitrate 
of soda, although costing only 91. 3s. 10c/., was really worth 19s. 
more per ton than the more expensive purchased compound 
manure. Instead of buying a ready-made mixed manure, the 
saving of 4/. 15s. per ton was effected by mixing the named 
ingredients together, which leaves a very wide margin for the 
expense and trouble of compounding the manure on the farm. 
The following extracts from a letter received by Dr. Voelcker 
from the member who sent the samples will be read with 
interest : — 
"Dear Sir, — I am favoured with yoiu- note enclosing the results of the 
analysis of the two samples of manures sent you. I am more than satisfied 
with ^the result of No. 1, my own mixture, although I never had any doubt 
of its being up to the mark, and well worth the money. 
"I note what you say, 'that it is rather a joke to ask 137. per ton for a 
manure like No. 2 ;' the seller of the manure represents it to be better and 
cheaper than any other manure in the market, and charges 13?. per ton cash, 
or lil. per ton payable in November. He holds a land agent's situation, and 
makes use of his position In selling to his employer, and also to his employer's 
poor tenants, what you are now well aware from the analj^sis is a fair good 
manure at an exorbitant price. It is really too bad that those who ought to 
be the first to assist and enligliten poor struggling tenants in these depressed 
times should be the first to make use of their position to impose upon them — 
little wonder some farmers go to the wall with such treatment. I know many 
large and intelligent farmers who have no difficulty in juirchasing chcaj^ in 
quantities and mixing for themselves, but small tenants are not generally so 
well informed, nor are they in a position to purchase to advantage. 
"I have no wish to interfere with respectable manure merchants, and such, 
I am pleased to say I have bad no difficulty in finding them. If manure 
dealers as a class were led to know that those dealing with them had know- 
ledge enough not to be imposed upon, such impositions as charging from 27. to 
51. per ton over the true value of manure would soon be put an end to, and 
those of respectability would then, as now, be jileased to deal for cash even 
at small profits. I am always pleased to read your reports, and more pleased 
to have your letters. 
"I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully, 
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