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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 20 
PRIMER SCIENCE. 
Phosphoric Acid and Nitrogen.— 
1. Can South Carolina phosphate rock, 
ground, be used to advantage in com¬ 
post? 2. With ivhat acid must it be 
treated to make “acid phosphate”? 3. 
What is “ tankage ” ; is it merchantable? 
Is it a cheaper form of nitrogen than ni¬ 
trate of soda at 850 per ton ? G. h. h. 
Fayetteville, N. C. 
R. N.-Y.—1. Phosphate rock very fine¬ 
ly ground, is often called “ fioats.” 
When scattered through a compost heap, 
these floats are, in time, made a little 
more soluble than in their original shape, 
but they would not give satisfaction on 
crops that need soluble food, or that 
which is available at once. 2. To make 
“ acid phosphate,” the ground rock must 
be mixed with what is known as sul¬ 
phuric acid, or “ vitriol.” This makes 
the crude rock soluble. To understand 
what this is, consider the thin, blue, 
pungent vapor that sometimes gets into 
your nose in striking an old-fashioned 
sulphur match. Sulphuric acid is this 
biting vapor greatly concentrated and 
dissolved in water. 3 “Tankage” is a 
product from fat-rendering tanks. The 
grease is melted and run off, leaving 
some lean meat, gristle and pieces of 
bone. This residue is dried and ground, 
and called tankage. On an average, it 
contains seven per cent of nitrogen and 
10 per cent of phosphoric acid. In a 
finely-ground sample of tankage, the 
phosphoric acid is worth cents a 
pound. If your sample contains 10 per 
cent, that means 200 pounds to the ton, 
or 811. Subtract 811 from the price per 
ton, and divide by 140 (if seven per cent 
of nitrogen are guaranteed). This will 
give the cost of a pound of nitrogen. To 
compare this with nitrate of soda at 850 
per ton, get the per cent of nitrogen 
guaranteed. This is usually 16, or 320 
pounds to the ton. At 850, that means a 
little over 15 K cents a pound. Take the 
price at which tankage is offered, and 
figure out the price as indicated above. 
Raw and Dissolved Bone. —1. Why 
does pure dissolved anin al bone analyze 
but little more than half as high a per 
cent of ammonia and phosphoric acid as 
raw bone? 2. Will S. C. Rock mixed with 
raw bone make the bone act more quickly, 
and is it a suitable mixture to put on 
wheat at the time of sowing? If.not, 
what would be better? Some of our best 
farmers are mixing it half and half, and 
sowing 200 pounds of the mixture to the 
acre. ^ w. 
Everett, Pa. 
R, N.-Y—1. For the same reason that 
there is more actual flour in a pound of 
dry bread crusts than in a pound of 
bread pudding. To make the pudding, 
you must add sugar, eggs and milk, 
which makes more than twice the weight 
of the crusts without adding to the flour 
they contain. Now take a ton of raw 
bone. In order to “dissolve” that, it is 
necessary to add to it from 1,000 to 1,200 
pounds of sulphuric acid, which is de¬ 
scribed on this page. Considerable water 
is attracted, too, so that the real weight 
of the mixture is nearly doubled, while 
you can see that no more ammonia or 
phosphoric acid has been added. So it is 
just like the crust and the pudding. 2. 
You do not say whether the S C. Rock 
has been treated with acid or not. An 
“acid rock,” as explained elsewhere, 
will furnish soluble phosphoric acid, but 
we consider good raw bone soluble 
enough for wheat, and would not advise 
this mixture. We would prefer to add 
to the bone, some substance containing 
potash. Bear in mind that “raw” bone 
is ordinary bone ground fine and not 
otherwise treated. 
What is Kainit ?—I find a very inter¬ 
esting article in The R. N.-Y. of Sep¬ 
tember 29 entitled, “ A North Jersey 
Peach Farm.” In that article the ques¬ 
tion is asked, “ What fertilizers do you 
use?” Answer: “None ... I have 
used kainit.” What sort of stuff is kainit, 
and where is it to be had? My Webster’s 
unabridged, and also my Worcester’s 
unabridged dictionaries, have no such 
word, neither do I find it in my Apple¬ 
ton’s Cyclopedia; yet The Rural is con¬ 
stantly bringing it in, to my great dis¬ 
gust. since it is perpetually reminding 
me of my ignorance of the meaning of a 
word in common use in my agricultural 
and horticultural newspapers. x. w. 
New Canaan, Conn. 
R. N.-Y.—The potash used in fertil¬ 
izers, aside from wood ashes, comes from 
Germany where it is dug out of the 
Stassfurt mines. Naturally this potash 
comes in different forms; since these 
mines also furnish salt, the two are often 
mixed. Sulphate of potash is potash 
combined with sulphur, and corresponds 
to sulphate of lime or plaster. Muriate 
of potash corresponds to common salt, 
only in the latter soda is found instead 
of potash. These forms may be mined 
nearly pure, but there are also layers of 
a mixture containincr sulphate, muriate, 
common salt and different forms of soda 
and magnesia. This mixture is a very 
popular fertilizer in G ^rmany—so much 
so that some name was needed to dis¬ 
tinguish it from muriate or sulphate. It 
is known, therefore, as kainit (taken 
from the word kaolin or potash). Kainit, 
then, is a mixture of half a dozen sub¬ 
stances, and contains about 123^ per 
cent of potash. You will find the word 
on page 808 of Webster’s International 
dictionary. Other mixtures of potash 
taken from this mine are called carnall- 
ite, kleserite, sylvinite, etc. The thing 
to remember is that these manures repre¬ 
sent compounds of votash. 
A NOBLE FIGHT. 
AN EMINENT SOUTHERN LAWYER’S LONG 
CONFLICT WITH DISEASE. 
Twenty-fire Years of Prosperity, Adversity 
and Suffering. The Great Victory fVon 
by Science Over a Stubborn Disease. 
[From the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.] 
Foremost among the best known law¬ 
yers and farmers of North Carolina 
stands Col. Isaac A. Sugg, of Greenville, 
Pitt Co., a man who has been on the edge 
of eternity, and whose life had been 
measured by minutes. 
“It has been 22 years since I became a 
resident of this town,” said Col. Sugg in 
telling his story to a reporter; “even 
then the first symptoms of gravel were 
asserting themselves, but were slight. 
Gradually, however, my disease devel¬ 
oped, and fight it as I would, it seemed 
to gain a stronger foothold day by day, 
until my misery was complete. For 16 
years I never knew what it was to be 
free from pain ; not pain as an ordinary 
man thinks of it, but agonizing, excru¬ 
ciating, unendurable pain. Tortured 
from head to foot, at times thrown into 
spasms, when it would require the united 
strength of four men to hold me until I 
was stupefied with stimulants and opi¬ 
ates. I could not sit, lie or stand in any 
one position but the shortest time. Sleep 
was out of the question unless brought 
about by the strongest stimulants or 
opiates. Oh, how many, many times 
have I thought of putting an end to that 
life of suffering. But then my mind 
would revert to my wife, my children, 
my home, and I would restrain my hand 
with the hope that some other means of 
escape would be offered. I searched the 
archives of medicine for relief. Doctors 
were consulted, lithia waters, mineral 
waters, drugs, opiates and stimulants of 
all sorts were tried without avail. Why 
I sent clear to the West Indies for medi¬ 
cine, and yet the result was the same. 
“ I kept at my work as long as I could, 
but nature gave way at last, and I suc¬ 
cumbed to the inevitable. My entire 
nervous system had been shattered by 
the stimulants and opiates I had taken, 
my blood had actually turned to water, 
my weight had dropped from 173 pounds 
to 123, and it seemed to everybody that 
the end was in sight. Why, I could not 
bear the gentle hand of my wife to bathe 
my limbs with tepid water. I was sim¬ 
ply living from hour to hour. I had made 
my will, settled my business, and waited 
for the last strand of life to snap. 
“ It was at this time that a somewhat 
similar case as my own was brought to 
my notice. This man had suffered very 
much as I had, his life had been des¬ 
paired of as mine had, and yet he had 
been cured. Think what that little word 
meant to me—CURED. The report 
stated that the work had been accom¬ 
plished by a medicine known as Dr. Wil¬ 
liams’ Pink Pills for Pdle People. I in¬ 
vestigated the report thoroughly, and 
found that it was true in detail. Then I 
procured some of Dr. Williams’ Pink 
Pills and began taking them, and began 
to get better. I began to sleep like a 
healthful child, sound, calm and peace¬ 
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nerves were soothed and restored to 
their normal condition, and I felt like a 
new man. But the greatest blessing 
was the mental improvement. I began 
to read and digest; to formulate new 
plans, to take interest in my law prac¬ 
tice, which began to come back to me as 
soon as my clients realized that I was 
again myself. After a lapse of 10 years 
I ride horseback every day without fa¬ 
tigue. 
“That Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills saved 
my life is beyond doubt, and I am spread¬ 
ing their praise far and wide.” 
Inquiry about the town of Greenville 
substantiated the above facts of Col. 
Sugg’s case, and that many others are 
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