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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
APRIL i9 
Implement Notes 
AX IMPROVED THRASHING 
MACHINE. 
Farmers, as a rule, have always enter¬ 
tained the idea that every pound of straw 
grown on a farm ought to be quickly 
utilized in the manure pile. While this 
may seem to be correct, it can easily be 
proved by facts and figures that the system 
is wasteful and wrong, and money thus 
wasted, if saved, would buy enough ma¬ 
nure or fertilizer to keep the farm in high 
condition, besides leaving a good round 
sum as profit for the farmer. 
One acre of good land will yield 20 bush¬ 
els of wheat and one ton or more of straw. 
The present price of wheat is 70 cents per 
bushel, and the price of wheat straw 
thrashed straight and bound, is about $12 
per ton. The price of the produce of 20 
acres of grain yielding 20 bushels to the 
acre, sold at 70 cents per bushel, will 
amount to $280 ; and the 20 tons of straight 
thrashed and bound straw, if sold at $12 
per ton, would bring $210, making a 
total of $520 realized from the 20 acres of 
grain and straw. Enough, however, of this 
straw must be economically used for bed¬ 
ding for the cattle and horses on the farm. 
By actual test one half ton of straight 
thrashed straw per head per year is found 
to be a great abundance; consequently if 
there are, say, 16 head of stock on the farm, 
they would require only eight tons of straw 
to bed them one year. This would leave 
for the farmer 12 tons of straw for sale for 
$12 per ton, making $144 for the straw r sold. 
Just here the query may arise : Will not 
selling the straw rob the farm ? According 
to Prof. E. B. Voorhees, the New Jersey 
State Chemist, the real manurial value of 
straw in the manure pile is only $1.80 per 
ton ; while the same straw, if thrashed 
straight and bound, would bring in the 
market at least $12 per ton, and sometimes 
$15 or $18. If the old plan is followed, and 
the entire straw crop of 20 tons is deposited 
in the manure pile, the actual value of it 
there, according to Prof. Voorhees, is only 
$36; while if the entire crop of 20 tons of 
straw were sold, it would bring $240 to the 
farmer, making a profit of $204 on 20 acres. 
If we take the full manurial value of the 
20 tons of straw—which is only $36—and 
with it buy stable manure, or some com¬ 
mercial fertilizer, it will enrich the farm to 
the same extent as if the whole 20 tons of 
straw had been deposited in the manure; 
and still leave in the farmer’s pocket a net 
profit of $204. This, while enriching the 
farmer, surely does not rob the farm. 
One may say: “If this theory be true, 
why has not this plan been adopted be¬ 
fore?” The time has only just arrived 
when farmers could avail themselves of a 
machine that will thrash and clean wheat, 
oats and rye without breaking the straw, 
and at the same time bind the straw 
straight in bundles ready for the market. 
Such thrashing machines are now manu¬ 
factured and will before New Year’s be 
adopted in preference to the old-style tooth 
cylinder thrashers, which necessarily break 
up and ruin the straw for marketable pur¬ 
poses. It has only been a few years since 
the introduction of the self-binding rye 
thrasher; and look to-day at the increased 
acreage of rye ! Why has this occurred ? 
Simply because the rye can now be thrashed 
straight and be bound in bundles, making 
the straw marketable at high price,all over 
the country, J. B. 
SATISFACTION DEMANDED. 
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IMPORTANT. 
The following article is taken from the Cultivator and Country 
Gentleman, and every farmer should read it through : 
“ A point often overlooked, if not entirely lost sight of by many in 
the purchase of commercial fertilizers, is that of solubility. The laws 
demand that the chemical contents of every fertilizer shall be stated ; 
that is, so much ammonia, bo much phosphoric acid and so much 
potash. But they do not require, nor have the official chemists been 
able to determine, the sources from which these ingredients are ob¬ 
tained. One fertilizer may contain its ammonia entirely in the form of 
wool, leather, horn or hoof waste—all inferior if not worthless sources. 
Another may contain the same amount in the most soluble chemicals, 
such as sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda, or properly dissolved 
organic materials, such as dried blood, meat, bone and fish—all of them 
excellent materials for the growth of crops; and yet in the chemists’ 
reports, these two fertilizers, if they contain the same amount of am¬ 
monia, will stand precisely on a level with each other, with no official 
indication as to which is the more valuable. 
It is a fact well-known in the trade that many fertilizer manufac¬ 
turers are using doubtful ammoniates, having been led into the prac¬ 
tice, in some cases, no doubt, by the fact that the station valuations 
would give their goods as high a rating, without reference to the source 
of the fertilizing ingredients. Some well known fertilizers have been 
so loaded with this inferior material as to secure station valuations in 
many cases far in excess of the selling price, and no doubt many farm¬ 
ers have been misled into buying them by these high ratings, and it 
thus has happened that a system devised to assist the farmer, has been 
the means in not a few instances of his deception. 
The Maine and Vermont Experiment Stations, however, last year 
took the initiative in making special tests to show the availability of 
the nitrogen in the different fertilizers sold in their respective States. 
The results obtained certainly demonstrated the wisdom of their course, 
for on a scale of 100, several well-known brands showed less than 50 per 
cent, of their organic nitrogen to be available, while some went as low 
as 22 per cent. Prof. W. H. Jordan, Director of the Maine Experiment 
Station, said, in making this report: 
l 
‘ A solubility of less than 40 per cent, gives good ground for suspect¬ 
ing the use of an inferior ammoniate. In fact, anything less than 50 
per cent, is to be regarded as indicating the presence of organic material 
of a lower grade than dried blood, dried flesh or dried fish.’ 
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This point of solubility in fertilizers is one of the most vitally im¬ 
portant that a farmer has to deal with. Iu applying commercial fertil¬ 
izers, he looks for immediate effect; and it seems hardly necessary to 
say that such results will not follow unless the fertilizer be soluble— 
that is, in a condition so that almost as soon as it is applied it can be 
taken up as acceptable plant food by the growing crop. It is interesting 
to note in this connection that the Stockbridge Special Manures, which 
have been so extensively advertised in our columns, stood ahead of all 
other fertilizers tested in this way, the Stockbridge Grass Manure stand¬ 
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Bowker Fertilizer Company stood well up in the list, leading most, if 
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the great prize crop of potatoes last year was raised on the Stockbridge 
Potato Manure alone, those farmers who enter the 1890 contest may do 
so with the assurance that they can use no fertilizer better adapted to 
the purpose than the Stockbridge Special Manure.” 
The Stockbridge Manures won over all other 
fertilizers in the 1889 potato contest, producing a 
crop larger by seventy bushels than that grown on 
any other fertilizer, stable manure, or both com¬ 
bined, the yield being 738X bushels, and taking 
the grand prize of $1,100, and the above editorial 
may explain the reason why. 
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