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Therefore: 
4 units of Ammonia are worth. . .$13.20 
6 units Available Phosphoric Acid 6.00 
1 unit Insoluble.20 
5 units Potash . 5.50 
The least plant food that can be in this 
ton of fertilizer, legally, is worth at sea 
board Jacksonville, $24.90; and we take 
this value in comparing with other for¬ 
mulae. But when comparing with the 
catalogue price, we must remember the 
analysis runs above the lowest figure, 
really, and every ounce of plant food has 
cost the manufacturer and is worth mo¬ 
ney to us. Then there are the handling, 
storage, mixing and bagging, the inspec¬ 
tion fees, the general ups and downs in 
trade, and so forth. Don’t for a minute 
think the manufacturer can sell the fer¬ 
tilizer at this price, still he must not ask 
too much, for now we know when he 
claims too big a profit and save many a 
dollar by that knowledge. 
But the financial saving is the lesser 
gain from our study, after all; for as one 
learns he looks more and more to the 
how’s and why’s, and his whole life is 
broadened by the study of Nature’s won¬ 
drous wavs. 
✓ 
List of Books. 
Voorhees’ “Fertilizers”—McMillan Co., 
N. Y. 
Snyder’s “Soils and Fertilizers”—Chem¬ 
ical Pub. Co., Easton, Pa. 
Hume’s “Citrus Fruits and Their Cul¬ 
ture”—Prof. H. H. 'Hume, Glen St. 
Mary, Fla. 
Clarke and Dennis’ “Elementary Chem¬ 
istry”—American Book Co., Atlanta 
Ga. 
White’s “Outline of Chemical Theory”— 
American Book Co., Atlanta, Ga. 
Gray’s “How Plants Grow”—American 
Book Co., Atlanta, Gia. 
Gray’s “Lessons in Botany”—American 
Book Company, Atlanta, Ga. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Skinner—I notice this lady 
made a statement in her paper that 
potash stopped growth. 
Mrs. Prange—I do not claim to 
know anything by experience. What 
I have presented here is gathered from 
authorities and experts on the subject. 
Mr. Skinner—I might give you a 
little experience I had in the potash 
line. It was the first lemon crop I 
grew. I thought I would mature that 
lemon crop early and get it on the 
market in nice shape; so I gave it a 
dose of high-grade sulphate of potash. 
Well, my neighbors gathered and 
shipped their lemons, and while my 
lemons looked nice, they kept on 
growing, and they grew, and they 
grew, and they grew, and they grew. 
I was not able to market them until 
the first of December, but I got a good 
price for them. My experience has 
been to show that too much potash 
makes late ripening fruit. 
Mr. McCarty—In pineapple culture, 
in the summer application of fertilizer 
we do not use much potash, but 
in the fall application we u-se a higher 
percentage of potash. We find that 
the more potash we use, the closer the 
texture of the fruit and the better are 
the carrying qualities. It is said that 
it hardens the pineapple, but I don’t 
know. 
Mr. Griffing—The peach also carries 
much better. We know that an excess 
