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THE RURAL HEW-YORKER. 
ble, though in varying degrees, for the varying 
requirements of plants at different stages of 
growth.’ This is true, and we have urged its 
importance for many years in our pamphlets 
and on all occasions. Tim explains the fail¬ 
ure of tanking* and many other fertilizing 
materials, even with good analyses. Crops 
have varied wants and special demands in 
feeding.” 
-“ YVk do not recommend superphosphates 
for onions Whenever a superphosphate, with 
or without nitrate of soda, has grown a crop, 
it has been on land well supplied with soluble 
potash from previous manuring. The onion 
crop demands especially large supplies of pot¬ 
ash, and this element is not supplied at all in 
nitrate of soda, and to a very limited extent, 
if at all, in average superphosphates. The 
land therefore, by such treatment, must be¬ 
come each year poorer—at least so far as 
regards potash. The certainties of success, 
particularly during adverse seasons, are large¬ 
ly increased hy the use of a really complete 
manure, one which fully supplies the crop 
without getting the land out of condition.” 
- Report from the Pennsylvania State 
Board of Agriculture; “To many the term 
‘ bone’ conveys but one idea, viz: the bones 
of animals ground to a powder. This is cor¬ 
rect, so far ns it goes, but the difference in 
the price of the different brands of bone 
should convince the purchaser that there 
must, necessarily, be some difference in quality 
and value. We find on the market a variety 
of brands known as * soluble bone,’ * dissolved 
bone,’ and ‘acidulated bone,’ wnich in reality 
do not contain an ounce of auimal bone to the 
ton, but which are South Carolina rock treated 
with acid, which is a good fertilizer for some 
soils and crops, but is not the bone we are 
looking for. Discarding these and confining 
ourselves to pure animal bone, we will still 
find a variation of ten dollars per ton in the 
price of the article guaranteed by reliable 
parties to be pure animal bone. This differ¬ 
ence in price leads to the inference that there 
is some difference in quality and value, aud a 
care-ful examination will show that in many 
cases this diffe. ence in acti m and actual value 
is even greater than the difference in price.” 
-“ To prevent misunderstanding, we 
would say that we have no wish or intention 
of being understood to assert that the brands 
of * soluble bone,’ ‘ dissolved bone,’ and ‘acid¬ 
ulated bone,’ are not valuable, but we do not 
think it fair that the pure animal bone should 
be held responsible for their shortcomings 
aud defects iu plant nutrition. The name is 
given them for the purpose of selling them on 
the superior credit of animal bone and for no 
other put pose. They can be furnished at a 
much lower price aud at the same time afford 
the manufacturer more profit, but do not fur¬ 
nish the same elements iu the same propor¬ 
tions.” 
-“We have often claimed that nine- 
tenths of the fertilizers made from rock are 
purchased under the belief that they are 
made from animal bone aud this belief is 
founded on the misleading statements in the 
pamphlets and circulars aud also by agents, 
lioek should be sold by its right name. If it 
be uot distinctly stated by the manufacturer 
that rock is uot used it may be expected that 
this substitute for bone will form the basis of 
the fertilizer.” 
-“In mauirg the valuations for mixed 
goods (superphosphates, home-made super¬ 
phosphates, complete manures, guunos, etc.,) 
it is assumed that organic nitrogen contained 
in the mixed fertilizer is derived from the 
best sourci s, viz.: boue, blood, animal matter, 
Peruvian guano, or other equally good form, 
and uot from leather, shoddy, hair, or any 
low-priced, inferior forms of vegetable n at¬ 
ter. In case of insoluble phosphoric a°id, 
it is also assumed that it is from bone or other 
similar source, and not from rock phosphate. 
In this latter form, the insoluble phosphoric 
acid would be worth, commercially, only 
'“j cents per pound, or a little over one-third 
as much as if from fine boue.” 
-“ We have repeatedly cautioned the farm¬ 
ers against placing a too literal construction 
ou the ‘ valuations,’ as given by the Station 
to the fertilizers, aud we again repeat the 
caution, iu view of the fact that it is not 
always practicable in au analysis of a fertil¬ 
izer to distinguish some of the best from some 
of the poorest forms of the ingredients.” 
“ For these reasons the farmer should de¬ 
mand of all manufacturers a full aud explicit 
statement of materials used, and should deal 
only with those whose statements can be de 
pended upon.” 
-C. V. Mares: “The use of nitrate of 
soda alone as a source of nitrogen on a light 
soil is very injudicious, as it requires very fa¬ 
vorable circumstances to prevent a rapid 
waste of the costly material by leaching iu 
solution through the soil. It loses no strength 
by evaporation, but by leaching.” 
- Prof. Atwater in R N.-Y. of Sep. 12, 
1885: “ Farmers cannot afford to use commer¬ 
cial fertilizers at random, and it is time they 
understood the reason why.” * * * “The 
right materials in the right places bring large 
profits. Artificial fertilizers, rightly used, 
must prove among the most potent means for 
the restoration of our agriculture.” * * * 
“ The only way to find what a soil wants is to 
study it by careful observation and experi¬ 
ments.” 
- Storer’s Agriculture, page 235: 
“ Almost the whole of the enormous quantity 
of superphosphate now used is made, not from 
bones, but from mineral phosphates.” 
- Rural New-Yorker of February 11, 
1888: “We have no doubt that the future 
will show that the best fertilizers are not 
those which contain a certain form of potash, 
phosphate and nitrogen even though provided 
iu their highest-priced and most soluble forms, 
but, rather, the fertilizers that furnish the 
constituents in many different forms all of 
which are available, though fu varying de¬ 
grees, for the varying requirements of plants 
at different stages ot growth.” 
- Dr. Hoskins, of the Vermont Watchman: 
“ One-quarter of our fertilizing material in 
this State (at least one-quarter) is lost at the 
barn. More than another quarter is stolen by 
weeds, and pretty nearly another quarter that 
is in the soil the plants cannot get for lack of 
a good preparation—good plowing, harrow¬ 
ing, etc. Do we mean to say, then, that we 
farmers in Vermont do not get out of our 
land more than one-fourth as much as we 
might if we were all we ought to be, and 
might be, as tillers of the soil? We do mean 
just that.” 
-Prof. Johnson: “The difference be¬ 
tween the excrement of fowls and that of cat¬ 
tle of all sorts is that the former contaius in 
solid form all the fertilizing material of the 
food except what is retained in the body for 
growth or goes into the eggs, while a very 
considerable portion of the fertilizing value 
of the food of cattle is excreted in liquid form 
and is easily lost even in the stalls or barn¬ 
yard. It is easy to see then why the “ dung ” 
of fowls is a richer manure than that of cat¬ 
tle. That of the former contains both the 
urinary aud bowel excretions, that of the 
latter consists largely of the undigested food, 
with what of the urine may have been ab¬ 
sorbed and retained by it.” 
finest voices, but that mingling in music 
of voice and skill and feeling which weaves an 
enchanted spell.” 
-Bowker Fertilizer Co.: “Feed the 
plane and it will feed you.” * * * “ Literal¬ 
ly, almost every drop of blood and every 
piece of bine are now saved throughout the 
country.” 
-“ Manure is the best fertilizer, all thiogs 
considered; for it not only supplies plant food 
in various forms, but, being very bulky, it 
lightens up the soil and makes it more friable. 
It is, however, too slow for most quick crops, 
and is very ununiform in value, the manure 
from fat cattle being worth much more than 
that from young stock; and that which is hous¬ 
ed is worth more than that which is scraped up 
in thebarnyard. According to Dr. Goessman, 
a ton of stable manure averages to contain 25 
pounds of plant food, while the balance, 
1,975 pounds, is organic matter and water.” 
-“ Nitrate of potash (saltpeter) contaius 
about 13 per cent, of nitrogen, or about 16 per 
cent, of ammonia, and 46 per cent, of potash. 
This would be more extensively used as a 
source of nitrogen and potash if the price 
were not too high for agricultural purposes; 
but the price ranges from $100 to $140 a ton.” 
-“ It is claimed that farmers can buy the 
ingredients of complete fertilizers and mix 
them for themselves cheaper than they can 
buy the prepared fertilizers, and be more 
likely to get what they buy. People who urge 
this course forget that chemicals can be just 
as eadly adulterated as mixed fertilizers. Of 
course, whether mixed or unmixed, they are 
now required in most States to be guaranteed 
by the seller; and, if the seller is responsible, 
the buyer will get what he pays for in one 
case as in the other. The question turns upon 
the comparative cost and whether the farmer 
can buy chemicals and mix them and have 
them in as fine a condition as the prepared 
fertilizers. Fineness and dryness are very 
important requisites for even distribution.” 
Horstord’s Acid Phosphate 
For WakeiulnesH, 
Hysteria and other diseases ol the nervous 
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- Prof. W. O. Atwater: “In those States 
where experiment stations or other agencies 
exercise a proper control over the fertilizer 
trade and defend honest dealers as well as 
consximers, there are perhaps a hundred 
cases of failures from using the wrong 
materials, or using the right ones in wrong 
ways, where there is one from fraud. ‘ Com¬ 
plete' fertilizers are, in a sense, irrational, 
but they mark the first step in the progress 
towards the rational use of artificial ferti¬ 
lizers.'- 
-Massachusetts Report: “The state of 
moisture in a fertilizer exerts a no less im¬ 
portant influence on tho pecuniary value, in 
case of one aud the same kind of substance. 
Two samples of fish fertilizer, although equal¬ 
ly pure, may differ from 50 to 100 per cent, 
in commercial value, on account of mere 
difference in moisture.” 
-Appleton’s Cyclopedia: “The follow¬ 
ing proportional values are given by Eiuhof 
and Tbaer: Eighteen Ions of mangel-wurlzel 
are equal to 15 tons of Swedish turnips, or 7)^ 
tons of potatoes or tons of good English 
hay, each quantity containing the same 
amount of nourishment; but the roots may be 
grown upon less than au acre of land, while 
two or three acres of good grass land are re¬ 
quired to produce the equivalent amount of 
bay. The beet root is also deemed the least 
exhaustiug to the land.” 
- W. H. Bowker: “Wool waste contaius 
ammonia, but, as in hair and leather, it is in 
au insoluble form, and is consequently an in- 
feiior source of plant food. Those manufact¬ 
urers who use it in their fertilizers are in oue 
sense pulling “the wool” over the eyes of 
their patrons.” 
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