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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
February  27 
potash  varies  in  price  from  4%  cents  in 
muriate  of  potash  to  5 %  in  sulphate  of 
potash . 
These  figures  represent  what  farmers 
were  required  to  pay  for  fertilizer  mater¬ 
ial  in  ton  l<jts  for  cash.  Armed  with  these 
figures  and  the  analysis  on  the  hag,  a 
farmer  is  prepared  to  make  an  estimate  of 
the  true  value  of  any  fertilizer  offered  in 
the  market.  All  he  needs  to  know  in  addi¬ 
tion  is  how  to  calculate  percentage,  and  a 
few  tricks  of  the  trade.  If  the  manufac¬ 
turer  guarantees  his  compound  to  contain 
not  less  than  three  per  cent  of  nitrogen,  a 
ton  will  contain  00  pounds.  If  the  manu¬ 
facturer  is  honest,  this  will  be  worth  not 
less  than  15  cents  per  pound,  or  $9.  Sup¬ 
posing  it  to  contain  seven  per  cent  of  phos¬ 
phoric  acid,  soluble  and  available,  there 
will  be  140  pounds  in  a  ton.  This  at  eight 
cents  per  pound  will  be  worth  $11.20.  A 
high-grade  fertilizer  will  contain  not  less 
than  five  per  cent  of  potash,  or  100  pounds 
per  ton,  which  will  be  worth  $4.50.  We 
should  add  to  this  about  three  per  cent 
or  00  pounds  of  insoluble  phosphoric  acid, 
worth  $1.80.  This  makes  the  value  of 
the  material  foot  up  $26.50.  The  cost  of 
mixing,  bagging,  agents’  commissions, 
and  freight  added  to  this  will  probably 
bring  the  price  up  to  $35  per  ton  by  the 
time  it  reaches  the  farmer . 
If  the  manufacturer  guarantees  three 
per  cent  of  ammonia  instead  of  nitrogen, 
it  is  well  to  know  that  ammonia  is  not 
exactly  the  same  as  nitrogen.  In  17  parts 
of  ammonia  there  are  14  parts  of  nitro¬ 
gen.  Therefore,  to  get  the  correct  figures 
we  must  divide  the  three  per  cent  by  17 
and  multiply  the  result  by  14.  Thus  we 
get  2.47  per  cent  of  nitrogen.  If  the 
analysis  guarantees  20  per  cent  of  bone 
phosphate  it  does  not  mean  20  per  cent  of 
phosphoric  acid,  for  bone  phosphate  con¬ 
tains  only  about  40  per  cent  of  phosphoric 
acid.  In  this  case  the  figures  should  read 
9. 20  per  cent  of  phosphoric  acid.  It  is 
the  percentage  of  actual  potash  that 
should  be  given.  Good  muriate  of  potash 
contains  about  50  per  cent  of  actual 
potash . 
Ai.r.  this  will  guide  the  farmer  if  deal¬ 
ing  with  honorable  firms.  It  must  not 
be  forgotten  that  fertilizers  may  be  mixed 
that  will  show  by  analysis  a  mercantile 
value  of  $25  or  $40  per  ton,  that  agricul¬ 
turally  are  not  worth  half  that  amount.  . 
W.  It.  Lazenby,  of  the  Ohio  State  Uni¬ 
versity,  has  a  good  word  to  say  for  what 
are  usually  regarded  as  weeds.  lie  con¬ 
siders  them  a  check  on  cheating.  In  their 
ignorance  and  greed  men  would  rob  the 
soil  of  every  vestige  of  fertility  by  con¬ 
stant  cropping,  were  it  not  that  Nature 
in  self-defense  causes  weedy,  worthless 
plants  to  grow  where  selfish,  short¬ 
sighted  man  expected  to  continue  to  get 
something  without  giving  any  equivalent 
in  return.  Under  some  circumstances 
weeds  are  cries  of  distress.  They  are 
signals  that  the  soil  is  being  robbed,  and 
they  appear  in  order  to  arrest  further 
spoliation.  Then  we  are  just  waking  up 
to  the  fact  that  some  of  the  so-called 
weedy  plants  have  special  and  hitherto 
unsuspected  values  of  their  own.  The 
common  mallow  (Malva  rotundifolia), 
a  well-known  weed,  introduced  from 
Europe,  affords  a  good  illustration.  This 
weedy  plant,  by  means  of  the  tubercles 
on  its  roots,  has  the  same  power  that 
clover  and  other  leguminous  plants  pos¬ 
sess,  that  of  vitalizing  by  means  of 
bacteria  the  free  nitrogen  of  soil  and 
air.  In  other  words,  the  mallow  will  en¬ 
rich  the  soil  and  may  become  a  practi¬ 
cable  fertilizer . 
Mr.  A.  M.  Nichot.,  Granville,  O.,  origi¬ 
nated  the  Stone  Tomato.  A.  M.  Liv¬ 
ingston  &  Son  introduced  it . 
We  give  below  two  analyses  of  fertil¬ 
izers  that  analyze  the  same  and  are,  there¬ 
fore,  chemically,  of  the  same  value  : 
100  pounds  of  nitrogen  (from  nitrate  soda) . $14.00 
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Times  Building,  New  York. 
