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'■"-QUALITY IN FERTILIZERS. 
High prices are no indication of qual¬ 
ity in any kind of commercial fertilizer. 
There are three things to consider in 
regard to quality, namely, the reliability 
of the manufacturers, the guaranteed 
analysis and the results in the field. The 
matter of price should not be considered 
in judging the quality, for it is a fact 
that there are agents selling goods at 
high prices on the strength of their word 
alone, the prices being made by them¬ 
selves to cover the expense of selling, 
cost of collection and bad debts, while 
the actual value of the goods is not as 
high perhaps as some reliable brand sell¬ 
ing at less money. There are two 
chances for serious loss in buying fer¬ 
tilizers; one is in not selecting goods of 
the proper analysis, considering the ac¬ 
tual needs of the land and crop it is used 
on, and the other is in not knowing the 
actual market value of the fertilizer 
bought. As a rule it is poor policy to 
buy low-grade fertilizer, for the expense 
of handling and shipping, and the agent’s 
profit is just the same per ton as the 
high-grade goods, while the quality of 
the material used in the cheaper grades 
is usually inferior. It is safer and 
cheaper to use high-grade goods and 
then regulate the quantity used per acre 
according to money desired to outlay on 
that acre. For example, it would be bet¬ 
ter to use 150 pounds per acre of a 2-8- 
10 fertilizer than 300 per acre of one 
1- 6-6 in analysis; or use half the amount 
of a 4-10-7 grade, than you would of a 
2 - 8 - 4 . The cost in either case of the 
first named, would be only about one- 
third more per ton, while the actual 
field value would be about double that of 
the lower grade. It should also be re¬ 
membered that nitrogen is expensive, and 
where it can be furnished from some 
other source it is not good economy to 
buy it very extensively. The two other 
dements, phosphoric acid and potash, we 
should buv according to the make-up of 
our soil and the needs of the crop. 
L. B. YOUNG. 
Utilizing Carcass as Fertilizer. 
IT. O. L., Sturgeon Falls, Ont. —Is there 
any simple and available method of con¬ 
verting the carcass of a horse (1,200 
pounds) into a fertilizer to be utilized for 
strawberries or garden truck, or for any 
purpose which it may be best adapted to? 
I figure if will be worth considerable. Now 
the ground is frozen and snow too deep to 
dig a hole and bury it. What would be its 
value when teady as a fertilizer? 
Axs.—Such a carcass would be worth 
about $15 a ton, or 75 cents per 100 
pounds as a fertilizer—provided you 
could crush the meat and bones as fine 
as the fertilizer you buy. It would not 
have half this value before being 
crushed. The great difficulty in using 
such carcasses is the trouble in fining the 
bones. The carcass can be chopped up 
with axes and the pieces buried beside 
apple trees. We have done this in several 
cases. In Winter it is more economical 
to feed the meat to chickens or hogs. 
•During cold weather it will keep. A good- 
sized chunk can be hung on a string 
where the hens can jump and pick at it. 
Bones and meat may be boiled in a cook¬ 
er and the soup thicken d with meal or 
boiled potatoes for hog feeding. Unless 
the animals died from some contagious 
disease we would use the meat for feed¬ 
ing in \\ inter. Some of the softer bones 
can be cut with a bone cutter. The hard¬ 
er bones may be softened by packing 
them in layers of unleached wood ashes 
and keeping the mass wet with liquid 
manure. With this treatment in three 
months most of the bones will be soft 
enough to smash with a heavy shovel. 
A Quick Way to Fruit Growing. 
R- O. W., Lancaster, Pa. —IIow I could 
become a fruit-grower? My circumstances 
are this: I am 31 years old, single, I am 
working in a factory. I have $1,000 I 
would invest in some way to become a fruit 
grower. My health is not the best, so I want 
ouldoor work. What is the quickest way I 
could acquire the above knowledge? 
—lo the man who is making a 
living as a fruit grower it may seem 
THE RURAL 
strange that we receive dozens of letters 
like the above. There is a man who 
thinks there is some “quick’’ way of 
leaving how to grow fine fruit. Ask an 
old veteran who has grown 40 or more 
yearly crops and he will tell you that 
some things about the last one puzzled 
him more than the first one did. If our 
friend will take our advice he will tie 
his $1,000 up in some safe place where 
he can touch nothing but the interest, 
and then go and work on some good 
fruit farm as a laborer. Then he can 
tell whether his ambition to grow fruit 
can stand the labor required to learn 
the business. Do not under any con¬ 
sideration invest the money with stock¬ 
selling fruit companies or in partnership 
with a fruit grower. Wait until you 
have tried the business as a laborer. 
You will find many benevolent people 
who are quite ready to take your money 
and show you how. Let them alone. 
About all the crops you can pick in 
that way will -be a good-sized and very 
sour lemon. Bboks and papers will help 
you and so may in a short course at an 
agricultural college later, but first of all 
our advice is to find some good fruit 
farm where you can work at fair wages 
and learn the trade from the bottom. 
Windows in Herthouse Roof. 
In a henhouse I have had glass windows 
in front. I have just put some thin can¬ 
vas screens in place of part of the windows. 
This darkens the house quite a lot. When 
I build my next house what will be the 
objection to putting a roof window over 
each pen, if I have a chance to raise these 
windows on hinges so as to let out the 
extra heat when the sun shines? 
Berlin, Mass. m. s. w. 
The objection to glass is that it draws 
the heat in the day time and passes it 
off quickly at night. But canvas is all 
wrong, as it shuts out the light. Strong 
unbleached muslin that can be bought 
at six to seven cents a yard is the best 
material for curtains, as it will let in 
nearly as much light as glass, is equally 
warm, and gives almost perfect ventila¬ 
tion. We still like-one glass window in 
each pen, as it is the only way we can 
have sunlight on stormy days. But the 
roof window is not the best way to use 
what little glass is necessary, as it is no 
good on these stormy Winter days, the 
first inch of snow shutting out all light. 
Heat passes off through glass by contact, 
and a window in the roof on a cold night 
would chill a room quicker than a cake 
of ice on the floor. floyd q. white. 
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“Having used Swift’s High-Grade -‘Animal Brand ’ of Fertilizer, 300 lbs. 
per acre on a five acre piece of ensilage corn the past season, must say, notwith¬ 
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/ever raised. It was immense, thick and well eared, averaging fully 12 feet high, 
after several hard frosts. I managed to get it nearly all into a 57 ton silo during 
two weeks settling before it froze or it would doubtless have required a great deal 
more room. Have also used your fertilizers on potatoes and other crops with 
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“ It is with pleasure that I give this testimonial having used Swift’s Animal 
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class of fertilizers on the market, being Animal Blood. Meat and Bone, they fur¬ 
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“/ would recommend all up-to-date. progressive farmers to try Swift's Animal 
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Potash has a direct relation to the increase 
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Potash isn’t all there is to fertilizing, but 
it is so essential that you must consider it. 
Urge your fertilizer dealer to carry 
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no trouble in buying them if he will 
write to us about it. 
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Continental Building Baltimore, Md. 
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land. 
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