February, 1917 
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Being odorless, you can spread it on your lawn at any time without offense. 
Being finely granulated, it can quickly and easily be raked into the soil 
Alpk 
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Established 1905 
17-C Battery Place 
New York 
PREPARED ALPHANO 
Do not confuse the moisture-free, 
finely granulated Prepared A1 
phano, with the water-logged 
generally sour, so-called “natural' 
humus, which is nothing more nor 
less than inert swamp muck. 
The Organic Fertilizer With a Guarantee 
V elvety 
lawns 
without 
weeds. Vigorous 
shrubbery and tree growth- I lowers of in- 
creased size and beauty. Vegetables 
greater in yield and succulence. ^ our soil 
at once enriched and permanently bettered. 
You can accomplish all this at small cost 
and effort by doing it 
The Alphano Way 
The clean, sanitary way, without stench, 
disease germs or caustic action. 
Prepared Alphano is a well balanced 
organic fertilizer, made from rich organic 
matter in concentrated form, skilfully blend- 
ed with the plant foods found in chemical 
fertilizers; carrying in active form, the all- 
important soil bacteria which force the 
earth to liberate plant food, and the air to 
lend its nitrogen to plant growth; including 
the wonderfully efficient Azotobacters, 
the gatherers of nitrogen for all plant life, 
and those good germs which make phos- 
phorus and other mineral elements in the 
soil, soluble plant foods. 
Prepared Alphano is Nature’s balanced 
soil ration. 
It puts the most into the soil, gets the 
most out of that soil and permanently 
benefits that soil for the least money. 
We Stand Back of It 
It has ten years of fertility producing 
success to its credit. Prepared Alphano, 
if used as directed, will and must make good. 
We stand without question, back of every 
pound sold. 
Price Advance March First 
Due to the increased cost of labor, fuel 
and raw materials used in the manufacture 
of Alphano, a consistent advance in price 
has become imperative. 1 his increase 
gives you assurance of the quality being 
maintained. 
It hardly seemed fair, however, to make 
such an advance without first giving both 
our old customers and prospective new 
ones, a chance to buy at the old prices. 
After March First, price per ton in bags 
will be $15 instead of #12. 
— Price per ton in bags by carload, $12 
instead of #10. 
5 100-lb. Bags for $5. $12 a ton in bags 
$10 a ton in bags by the carload 
$8 a ton in bulk by the carload 
F. O. B. Alphano, N. J. 
These prices hold good until March 1st only 
The true Prepared Alphanc is a 
— Price per ton dry, ^ nel y granulated organic fer- 
1 ii f tilizer. adding concentrated humus 
in bulk by car- and plant foods to the soil. It is 
load, $IO in- at once active and beneficial. 
stead of $8. 
— Price on 5 100-lb. bags will for the 
present remain the same, $5. 
Even at the advanced price, it is far 
cheaper than any other fertilizer of any- 
thing like an equal in plant foods alone, 
regardless of the high value of the con- 
centrated humus it contains. 
Rot Proof Bags 
Alphano is now put up in rot proof bags, 
thus insuring its safe arrival to you in 
good condition, and can be stored safely 
if desired. 
Railroads are still moving freight slowly, 
so order early. It’s the only sure way of 
getting it early. Take advantage of its 
present low price. 
1 he Alphano Book is a soil fertilizing 
guide and friend. The Lawn Book tells 
of their care and fare, and how to make 
them. Either or both, you are welcome to. 
For those who want HETMUS only, we 
offer our sun dried, composted, Natural 
Humus at #5 per ton in bulk carloads, 
F. O. B. Alphano, N. J. This we believe 
to be superior to any other natural humus 
on the market. It comes from cultivated 
fields of proven fertility. 
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