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it is about equally valuable for plant 
food to tbe soluble which in any event 
gradually changes to “reverted” when 
well mixed with the soil. 2. Bone phos¬ 
phate does to a certain extent. You may 
frequently find raw whole bones etched 
or eaten into by the roots of plants. The 
phosphates in crude rock are less soluble 
than in raw bone. The insoluble phos¬ 
phoric acid probably means ground 
rock. This is very slowly soluble and of 
little agricultural value until acted on 
by sulphuric acid. The very finely ground 
rock does better when used with a sod 
or other decaying vegetable matter. The 
difference in values of the bone probably 
is due to the degrees of fineness to which 
it is ground. A very fine grade acts 
quicker than a lot of coarser pieces. 
A Talk About Fertilizing: Substances. 
M. F. D., Middle Hope, N. Y. —1. What 
should be the value of cotton-seed meal 
as a fertilizer; that is, the price one would 
have to pay for it to make it equal to a 
complete manure at $40 a ton ? What 
is its average analysis ? 2. What is the 
value of unleached wood ashes ? Will 
they take the place of farm manure 
with the addition of nitrate of soda or 
ammonia ? 3. What is the market value 
of sulphate of ammonia, sulphate of 
magnesia, sulphate of potash and muriate 
of potash ? 4. Which is the better to use, 
sulphate or muriate of potash ? 5. What 
is the value of tobacco stems, and do they 
contain magnesia? In an analysis given 
in The Rural January 28, potash, nitro¬ 
gen and phosphoric acid alone are given 
Ans. —The article on page 84 of Toe 
R. N.-Y. will answer this. Probably an 
average analysis of many samples would 
give seven per cent of nitrogen, three of 
phosphoric acid and two of potash. As 
lately explained, it needs the addition of 
superphosphate and potash. We should, 
however, never use it as a fertilizer ex¬ 
cept at the South where freight rates on 
chemicals are high, and long hauls are 
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ford. I would suggest that sometimes 
a bull, three or four years old, right in 
every way, is for sale solely to make 
room for a younger one or to avoid in- 
breeding. Such a bull may often be had 
at nearly butcher’s price, may be used 
to advantage for several years and then 
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Why So Much Phosphoric Acid ? 
Subscriber, Miller’s Comers, N. Y. —Why 
do fertilizer companies put more soluble 
phosphoric acid in their fertilizers than 
solub’e potash ? Thus Mapes Potato 
Manure contains 4.50 to 5 per cent of 
ammonia, 8 to 10 per cent of phosphoric 
acid (soluble 8 per cent), and of soluble 
potash 6 to 8 per cent. Now I find, by 
referring to my chemistry, that potatoes 
contain in each 1,000 parts 3 4 of nitro¬ 
gen, 5.6 of potash and 1.8 of phosphoric 
acid, or four times as much of potash as 
of phosphoric acid. Why, then, should 
we buy so much phosphoric acid ? 
Ans.—T hese mixtures are based upon 
the principle that “ a surplus is better 
than a deficit.” They represent much 
experiment and study in an effort to find 
just the right combinations. In the ma¬ 
jority of soils the mineral most lacking 
is phosphoric acid. Allowance is made 
for that fact by supplying more of it in 
the fertilizer. Again, while the analysis 
of a crop is useful as showing how much 
it has taken from the soil, its habit of 
growth must also he considered. For 
example, take strawberries and hay : by 
analysis alone, 5,000 quarts of strawber¬ 
ries ought to grow from the same manure 
that will produce half a ton of hay, be¬ 
cause there is about the same amount 
of ash in each crop Any one of common 
sense knows better, but why not ? The 
berries make their growth in a few days. 
Over four tons of water to the acre must 
be pumped up through the tiny stems in 
this short time. Who is foolish enough 
to scrimp hard workers for food ? It 
must be right beside them, plenty of it 
soluble and ready for immediate use. It 
is far better to have too much than too 
little. The hay grows for weeks or 
months and has time to make use of less 
soluble food We might compare it to 
the way workmen on a Western railroad 
were said to be fed. In good weather 
while working 14 hours a day they were 
fed everything they called for in the way 
of sound, nutritious food. In weather 
when snow cozered the ground and they 
could not work they were fed on “a stick 
and a track.” The boss gave them a stick, 
pointed out a rabbit track and told them 
to go in and catch their fill. The potato 
is a quick grower. It takes but a few 
days to form the crop of tubers and any 
lack of soluble food during that time is 
fatal to the crop. Makers of h ; gh-grdde 
potato fertilizers therefore use a high 
per cent of phosphoric acid so that the 
crop may never lack for food. 
Soluble, “ Reverted” and Insoluble. 
H. C. B., Pittsburg , Pa —1. What is 
meant by reverted phosphoric acid, and 
is it readily available as plant food ? 2. 
Does insoluble phosphoric acid benefit 
the crop on which it is first used ? In the 
analyses and values of fertilizers pub¬ 
lished by the Agricultural Department 
of Pennsylvania we are told that insolu¬ 
ble phosphoric acid is reckoned at three 
cents per pound. But in the values of 
ground bone it is also marked insoluble 
and reckoned at from four to six cents 
per pound. How is this? 
Ans. —1 Without considering the chem¬ 
istry of these changes in phosphates, it is 
enough to say that soluble phosphoric 
acid means that which is readily soluble 
in water, like sugar or salt. The “ re¬ 
verted” means phosphoric acid that was 
once soluble in water, but which now 
will not dissolve in that liquid. Gener¬ 
ally speaking “ reverted” means the sub¬ 
stance that will dissolve in weak vinegar 
but not in water. The acids of the plant 
roots are amply able to dissolve “ re¬ 
verted” phosphate, so that on the whole 
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