UNLEACHED  HARD  FOR  S  P  R I  N  C  P  L  A  N  T I  N  G 
Fruit  and 
Ornamental  I  bIECm 
What  Others  Say. 
( Continued .) 
The  analyses  on  the  hags  will  give  as 
a  minimum  five  per  cent  nitrogen,  five 
per  cent  potash  and  10  per  cent  of  phos¬ 
phoric  acid,  and  it  is  just  as  true  of  the 
first  as  of  the  second  lot.  The  farmer 
pays  the  same.  In  the  first  case  he  gets 
$36  worth  of  food  according  to  current 
rates;  in  the  second  $16.50 . 
Those  who  use  phosphates  blindly  are 
foolish.  Those  who  waste  any  of  the 
possible  home  product  of  manure  are 
agricultural  sinners,  says  W.  I.  Chamber- 
lain,  in  the  Country  Gentleman.  Those 
who  trust  to  clover  and  tillage,  with  little 
live  stock  and  no  phosphates,  never  in¬ 
crease  the  total  fertility  of  their  soils, 
and  usually  diminish  it  sadly.  Constant 
subtraction  (by  crops)  must  in  time  per¬ 
ceptibly  diminish  the  largest  “  minuend” 
of  fertility.  Mr.  Chamberlain  has  watched 
the  matter  with  care  for  40  years,  and  has 
never  seen  a  single  exception.  Those  who 
refuse  to  ride  any  hobby,  but  follow  the 
best  experience  of  the  past,  and  give  due 
weight  to  live  stock,  drainage,  tillage, 
clover,  yard  and  stable  manures  and 
phosphates  where  needed,  will  increase 
their  farms’  fertility,  and  will  have  a  right 
to  claim  that  in  these  respects  at  least 
they  are  “  farming  for  the  future.”  Mr. 
Chamberlain  now  finds  that  he  is  reaping  A.  A.  MARKS,  701  Broadway,  New  York 
the  benefits  of  his  resolve  many  years 
ago  that  he  would  farm  for  the  future, 
and  that  each  year  the  farm  should  in¬ 
crease  in  actual  value,  in  fertility  and 
productive  power . 
An  exact  knowledge  of  the  raw  mater- 
lain  made  use  of  in  compounding  a  fertil¬ 
izer  is  quite  as  essential  in  estimating  its 
commercial  value,  as  is  a  knowledge  of 
its  chemical  composition . 
Direct. 
- Harper’s  Monthly  :  “A  hundred 
men  may  succeed  in  making  a  fortune  for 
one  who  makes  himself  a  gentleman,  and 
it  is  the  assumption  that  money  is  a 
patent  of  gentility  which  makes  much  of 
the  comedy  of  society.” 
“  A  horse’s  tail  is  h.s  pride,  his  orna¬ 
ment,  his  defense  while  in  our  service, 
and  to  cut  it  down  to  a  stump  is  to  cut  off 
his  hands.” 
- Prop.  N.  Robinson,  Florida  State 
Chemist:  “  From  a  somewhat  extended 
experience  as  an  orange  grower,  I  am 
convinced  that,  taking  the  whole  State 
together,  orange  growers  are  applying 
too  little  potash  to  their  groves.  It  is 
the  ‘  one  thing  needful  ’  in  our  sandy 
soils.  Nitrogenous  manures  produce  a 
rapid  and  seemingly  vigorous  growth, 
but  it  is  at  the  expense  of  permanent 
vigor  and  vitality  in  the  tree.  I  do  not 
wish  to  recommend  potash  manures  ex¬ 
clusively,  far  from  it  ;  this  would  simply 
be  an  error  in  the  opposite  direction,  less 
disastrous  perhaps  than  the  other,  in  our 
condition  of  soil  and  climate,  but  still  an 
error,  and  to  be  studiously  avoided.” 
- Farm  Journal:  “Many  brands  of 
fertilizers  offered  for  sale  are  made  by 
intelligent  and  honest  men ;  a  few  by 
honest  but  ignorant  men,  and  a  few 
others  by  dishonest  men.” 
“  Pen  and  ink  are  wit’s  plow.” 
‘  ‘  The  farm  is  quite  as  near  heaven  as 
the  city  is.” 
“  Is  there  a  more  thorough  gentleman 
anywhere  than  the  well-mannered,  intel¬ 
ligent,  methodical,  painstaking  farmer? 
NO  !  ” 
“  Talk  about  all  questions  of  political 
economy  inside  your  farmers’  organiza¬ 
tion,  but  discuss  partisan  politics  outside .” 
“  One  way  to  ‘  get  something  for  noth¬ 
ing  ’  is  to  be  agreeable  at  home.  It  costs 
absolutely  nothing,  and  brings  rich  re¬ 
turns  of  happiness.” 
“  Give  us  the  enthusiast,  and  lots  of 
him  !  He  will  make  the  farm  hum.” 
“  If  we  know  what  our  soil  and  crop 
most  need,  and  know  how  to  buy  that 
element,  whether  it  be  phosphoric  acid, 
nitrogen  or  potash,  we  can  strengthen 
our  barnyard  manure  by  the  addition  of 
it  to  the  land  directly,  or  by  mixing  it 
with  the  manure.” 
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