1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
343 
THE BUFFALO FERTILIZER COMPANY. 
Its Showing at the Stations. 
Having been a reader of The II. N.-Y. for several years 
and appreciating all its good qualities, especially in regard 
to exposing frauds, I feel you have made one mistake in 
reference to the Buffalo Fertilizer Company. The fariners 
of this locality have used fertilizers made by the Buffalo 
Fertilizer Company ever since they put out their goods, 
and as a unit consider it a good honest fertilizer, and 
excelled by none. Of course we all know there is a fraud 
perpetrated somewhere before the official samples get 
to the experiment stations, and perhaps by careful in¬ 
vestigation the fraud will be found outside the Buffalo 
Fertilizer Works ; in other words a case of “trust'’ trying 
to “bust’’ an independent company. As far as I know 
every sample of the Buffalo Fertilizer Company’s brands 
sent by the farmers to the Geneva, New York, Experiment 
Station, and other chemists, have analyzed up to and 
above the guarantee. o. a. Johnson. 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. 
Our objection to the goods of the Buffalo Fertilizer 
Company is based on their showing at the experiment 
stations. We do not recognize any higher authority 
than these station chemists. Last year the goods made 
by this concern were found below the guaranty in 
Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, 
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan. 
We are personally acquainted with the directors at six 
of these stations, and know that they could not be 
bought or induced to take unfair samples, or give a 
fraudulent analyse. We believe these Buffalo goods 
were found defective because they did not contain 
the plant food which the guarantee called for, and that 
the samples represented the goods fairly. The fol¬ 
lowing table shows how one brand, “Farmer’s Choice,” 
sold by the Buffalo Company, analyzed at six different 
stations. In the statement G means guaranteed and F 
what was found: 
Available 
rsitrogen 
f' oo 
Phos. Acid 
8. 
7.96 
Pota*h 
Michigan. 
5. 
4.43 
G. 
. .82 
8. 
5. 
Rhode Island . 
_F. 
. .85 
6.43 
4.95 
G. 
. .82 
8. 
5. 
Vermont. 
6.28 
4.14 
G. 
. .82 
8. 
5. 
New York . 
. .80 
7.92 
4 08 
G. 
. .80 
8. 
5. 
Connecticut. 
6.37 
4.66 
G. 
. .82 
8. 
5. 
Pennsylvania. 
. . . F. 
. .81 
6.45 
4.16 
Here were the chemists 
at six different stations all 
working independently, yet see how closely they agree. 
It could not be claimed 
that in 
all these different 
States mistakes occurred 
in either 
sampling or ana- 
lyzing. In not one 
single 
case do 
the papers 
fit the 
goods. Nor can it be said that this happened 
in one 
single year. The goods have been on sale in Vermont 
four years. The following statement shows how many 
times during these 
four 
years the different 
brands 
have been below: 
Years Below 
Guaranteed Out of Four. 
Name 
Nitrogen 
Phos. Acid 
Potash 
Farmers’ Choice. 
. . . . 0 
1 
3 
Fish Guano . 
... . 0 
1 
1 
General Crop . 
1 
2 
High-grade Manure . . 
9 
1 
4 
Wheat and Corn. 
. . . .3 
1 
2 
Vegetable and Potato. 
9 
1 
2 
In his last report Dr. Hills, of Vermont, makes the 
following statement to show how the goods of this 
company have proved deficient: 
Available • 
Nitrogen Pkos. Acid Potash Valuation 
Fish Guano. 
Wheat and Corn. 
Farmers’ Choice. 
.0“ 
.0.13 
2.24 
1.40 
1.72 
0.86 
$1.14 
1.26 
Vegetable and Potato. 
. 0.66 
0.80 
0.26 
3.28 
High Grade Manure. . 
.0.36 
1.08 
1.09 
3.73 
This means that the man who bought these brands 
got from $1.14 to $3.73 less plant food in a ton than 
he paid for. 
We believe this is about the poorest official showing 
made by any fertilier concern in the country. If 
anyone can point us to a worse one we will cheerfully 
print it. In Michigan the chemist states that of all 
the goods sold by the Buffalo concern muriate of pot¬ 
ash was the only one found giving a commercial 
equivalent. 
The representatives of the company claim that sam¬ 
ples of their goods were not fairly taken. When 
pinned down to it they admit that the chemical work 
at the New York Station is reliable. The writer 
suggested that he go out with their representative, 
select samples from goods that had been sold, and 
send them to Dr. Jordan for analysis. After some 
argument the Buffalo fertilizer man admitted that this 
was fair, and that the work at Geneva was reliable. 
This brought it down to the question of sampling. 
While he would not say so directly, he inferred that 
the agents who took the samples were “influenced” 
against his house. In New York State the Geneva 
Station has nothing to do with collecting samples. The 
sampling is done by agents of the Agricultural De¬ 
partment. 1 he samples come to the station marked 
by number only and the chemists do not know which 
goods they are analyzing. We are informed that rep¬ 
resentatives of this Buffalo Fertilizer Company go 
about saying that the work done at Geneva is not 
reliable. 1 hey know better, and when he was pinned 
down to it the manager would not stand for the 
charge. We will not permit such scandalous state¬ 
ments to go unrebuked. 
The fact is that goods made by the Buffalo Ferti¬ 
lizer Company have undoubtedly made a poorer show¬ 
ing at the stations than those sold by any other ferti¬ 
lizer house. If a single station reported them below 
guaranty there might be reason for calling it a mis¬ 
take, but when eight of the leading stations, working 
independently, all pronounce the goods below grade 
there can be no chance for an argument. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
POMEiSTIC —Owenton, Ky„ was visited March 25 by 
night riders, who set fire to three large tobacco ware- 
houses, valued at about $30,000, and destroyed 150,000 
pounds of tobacco. The buildings were the new “Equity’’ 
warehouse owned by a stock company in which all the 
tobacco was stored, a warehouse of the American Tobacco 
Company, and one belonging to an independent company. 
Reports from Jessamine and Madison Counties, two of the 
largest tobacco producing counties In the white hurley belt, 
say that the independent farmers are defying “night rid¬ 
ers” and will raise a larger crop than ever this year. One 
farmer in this county has offered $100 a month and board 
for a man to guard his buildings. . . . The leaf tobac¬ 
co warehouse of T. K. Hamilton & Co., at Fourth and 
Bakewell streets, Covington, Ky„ was burned down March 
20, causing a loss estimated at $170,000. The fire is 
thought to have been incendiary. Five residences and a 
saloon were also burned. ... A tornado near Jack- 
son, m the southern part of Michigan and a blizzard with 
heavy snowfall in the upper peninsula were the extremes 
of a general storm that struck Michigan March 27. The 
tornado did considerable damage to farm property around 
Blackman and Woodville, northwest and west of Jack- 
son, but no loss of life has been reported. At Menominee, 
in the upper peninsula, a velocity of 40 miles an hour was 
reported, driving the snow into huge drifts. Train and 
trolley service was seriously delayed in upper Michigan. 
. . . An earthquake at Chilapa. a town of 15,000 
inhabitants, State of Guerrero, Mexico, March 2(5, caused 
heavy loss. The shocks, two in number, were followed by 
fires. It is believed that there was much loss of life. . '. 
As the result of an inspection of schools throughout 
Greater New York, the superintendent of school buildings, 
C. B. .T. Snyder, reports that in the five boroughs there 
are 429 schools which are not properly protected against 
fire. Mr. Snyder said that to replace all of these non-fire- 
proof buildings with new ones of first-class construction 
would cost upward of $60,000,000, but such an expenditure 
at any one time was entirely unnecessary, “for several 
reasons, the most cogent of which, perhaps, is that simply 
because a building is of second class construction, or brick 
with wood floor beams, It is not necessarily unsafe for use 
for school purposes.” . . Fire on the construction pier 
of the new Manhattan Bridge, foot of Pike street. New 
Y r ork, March 30, extended to the Joy Line pier adioining 
and burned for 24 hours. It was a difficult and dangerous 
fire to fight; loss about $100,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—On March 20, 1908. a bill re¬ 
ported to the House of Representatives at Washington 
from the committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce 
makes it a misdemeanor to carry on interstate or foreign 
commerce in any seeds or bulbs which are adulterated or 
misbranded. For example, if seed purporting to be Ken¬ 
tucky Blue grass, contains seed of Canada Blue 
grass, such mixture, under the proposed law, would 
be regarded as an adulteration. The reoort on this 
measure declares that the United States has become the 
dumping ground for all the worthless seed of the world. 
All seed looks alike to the average man, says the report. 
He doesn't know the difference between turnip seed at 
40 cents a pound, cabbage seed worth $2 a pound, and 
cauliflower seed sold at $40 a pound. The report says: 
“The frightful extent to which adulteration of seed hits 
grown in our country is a menace to the interests of the 
farmer, the gardener, the horticulturist and the honest 
seedsman. Seed that is held over until the germ is dead 
and the vital force entirely gone is mixed with fresh seed 
of the same kind and the mixture sold as fresh seed.” 
r l he new structure for the Department of Agriculture is 
now complete, and the work of moving the various bureaus 
that are to have quarters in the two wings began in March. 
The central structure, which is designed to connect the 
two wings will be erected as soon as Congress makes an 
appropriation for the purpose. Senator Dollivcr has al¬ 
ready introduced a resolution in the Senate providing for 
the erection of the main building. It is thought that the 
appropriation will be voted at the present, session of Con¬ 
gress. The Bureau of Plant Industry, the Bureau of 
Animal Industry, the Office of Experiment Stations, and 
the library have been assigned quarters in the new 
structures. The department lias been greatly handicapped 
in its work by being so widely scattered and it is thought 
the business will be greatly assisted by the improved quar¬ 
ters. 
The Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science 
was started in 1886. It now has 90 members, located in 
various parts of the United States and Canada, and one in 
England. The meetings are held once a year in connection 
with the meetings of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, or the meetings of the Officers 
of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations.* Form¬ 
erly, the contribution* were of a technical nature, but in 
recent years most persons have specialized more and more. 
IMMIGRATION INTO NEW YORK.— Information con¬ 
cerning immigration into this State for the past few years 
was given out from the State Department of Agriculture 
in connection with a bill introduced in the Assembly March 
26 by Mr. Merritt of St. Lawrence. The measure proposes 
a State department for the collection of such information, 
both industrial and agricultural, as would be of benefit to 
the immigrant. According to the statement, 1,076,463 
immigrants took up their residence in New York State for 
the time being, at least, during the past three years. It is 
asserted that in 1907 they sent to their native homes sav¬ 
ings estimated at $300,000,000, which, had they been in¬ 
formed of conditions in this country, it is contended, would 
have remained and been invested here. Through this traffic, 
the statement says, about 2,000 illegal banks are being 
operated in Greater New York, a large proportion of them 
in direct violation of the State banking laws, which pro¬ 
hibit the use of the word “bank” to any but duly author¬ 
ized banking houses. It is asserted in the statement that 
55,000 former immigrants were induced to emigrate from 
this country during the last few months, carrying with 
them sums variously estimated at from $150,000,000 to 
$250,000,000. “The State of New York is capable of sus¬ 
taining an additional agricultural population of 2,000.000,” 
continues the statement, “and the placing of large numbers 
of these immigrants upon the cheap farms of the State 
would more than double the valuation of the agricultural 
lauds of this State.” 
AN INTER-STATE FAIR ASSOCIATION. 
E. A. Taylor, Forestville, Conn., chairman of the Exhibi¬ 
tion Committee of the Connecticut State Fair, is sending 
out the following letter. There are, it is stated, nearly 
1,000 fair associations in the country : 
“Cannot our State, County and Town Fair Association 
be improved and its officers helped by co-operation by the 
formation of an Inter-state Fair Association? Article 1. 
That its members shall meet at least once a year in con¬ 
vention at some suitable point to give reports on all mat¬ 
ters relating to fairs, to listen to addresses and to appoint 
a committee on National and State legislature for the sup¬ 
port and general improvement of our agricultural fairs. 
Article 2. To form circuits to avoid conflicting of dates 
of various fairs, which has caused much trouble to horse 
racing and great inconvenience to many exhibitors. Arti¬ 
cle 3. To furnish high-class amusement features, exhibitors 
of animal husbandry and of the manufacturing arts, etc., 
throughout the country. Please think this matter over and 
send us your views, and if this suggestion meets with 
your approval, please map out some line of work or offer 
some suggestion.” 
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