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Cy>c nURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 2, 1918 
The finest that skill and science can produce direct 
from our upland nurseries to you at wholesale prices. 
70% of our business comes from old customers, we give them satisfactory 
stock and service—That’s the answer—After a man has once had our trees— 
He knows he will get what he wants if he orders from us and he knows Maloney sells 
at cost of production plus one profit so the price will be right. 
You Get What You Order When You Buy 
MALONEY TREES 
Vines, Berries, Shrubs and Ornamentals 
grown under ideal climatic conditions by the largest Nursery in New York State, employ¬ 
ing the newest and most scientific methods of culture, handling and selling. 
In this Nursery belt, scale and fungus diseases are unknown and as our Nurseries are under 
State inspection as well as under the constant personal supervision of one of the firm. 
We Can Guarantee You Sturdy, Absolutely Healthy Upland Grown Stock 
We know that the future profits of the men who buy our stock depend absolutely on our 
ability to furnish stock tiiat will bear true to name — so Mr. A. E. Maloney selects all 
scions for budding from trees which are bearing the choicest fruit — that’s why we can 
positively guarantee that our 
Trees Will Bear True to Name 
In the same way every single step from the importation of the seedling until tlie t’-ee is shipped, is 
under the personal supervision of one of the firm. W'e know we are sending you the tree you order 
//. Kiiirru, Metcporl. P(i.. sails; “I wisli to timnk you for the prompt shipment mid the gi-enl em e 
yon took in preparing tliela.st trees I got. In two weeks aft*;!' they were iilanted. every tree was tnll 
of leaves am! they were the linost stock we ever reeeivml from yon. Tlie first ones were tine hut these 
are much better. We now have about 800 of your tiees planted and will still plant more.” 
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In spite of reported short¬ 
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Soil Fertility Notes 
Nitrate of Soda for Farmers 
Congro.s.s niithorizecl the President to 
inircliase 100,000 tons of nitrate of soda, 
to bo sold at cost to farmers. There has 
been great delay in buying and shipping 
this nitrate, but now Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture Houston is ready to proceed Avith 
the distribution. The plan outlined is 
given below, and all farmers who want 
to buy the nitrate should write their 
county agent at once. It will be a cash 
sale—the money to be put up before the 
nitrate is delivered. 
The f. o. b. price at port will he 
a ton, farmers paying the freight 
charges from the port of arrival and the 
State fertilizer tag foe. The plan i's that 
in each county where there is a county 
agi'iit lo have the agents associate witli 
themselves three or mor<! local business 
men in each community, who will serve 
without compensatioir, to a.ssist them in 
Hie sale of the nitrate. In each county 
where there is no county agricultural 
agent a committee of three or more local 
bu.siness men will he appointed. A farmer 
living in such a county who de.sires to 
make application for nitrate of .soda 
should, if he does not know the address 
of the local committee, addre.ss an iminiry 
to the State Director of Extension for 
hi.s State. The postofiice address of the 
Director of Extension in each State is 
given in the circular. The ship.s carr.ving 
the nitrate Avill be directed to the most 
convenient ports, including Charleston, 
^yilmington. Savannah, Norfolk and Bal¬ 
timore. Kepre.sentatives, who also will 
serve without compensation, have been or 
will he selected to handle the shipments 
at these places. 
Farmers will make application for ni¬ 
trate upon blanks furnished b.v the county 
agents or the local committees. Appli¬ 
cations miist be signed and returned so 
as to reach the conaty agents or members 
of the local committees by February 4. 
As the nitrate, under the law. can be 
sold only for c.ash. the -farmer will be re¬ 
quired to dejio.sit the mone.v covering the 
cost of the nitrate he wishes with the 
local bank, association, or individual to 
be designated by the Department. The 
orders will be transmitted to the Deiiart- 
ment. accompanied by the amount coher¬ 
ing the same. If the quantity of nitrate 
that can be secured will fill all order's, 
each farmer will secure the amount he 
reiinests; otherwise it will be necessar.v 
■to allot the nitrate to tho.se applying for 
it so that all may participate on equal 
terms in its distribution. None of the 
nitrate will be sold to dealers, either di¬ 
rectly or indirectly. It will be sold only 
to farmers directly for cash at cost, and 
generally not in excess of the amounts 
used by them heretofore. 
New Process for Fixing Nitrogen 
ronld yon give .some details of the re¬ 
cent discovery of Dr. Bucher of Brown 
University, that nitrogen can be obtained 
from the air in unlimited quantities at 
small expense? He simply uses two waste 
products, soda ash and powdered coke, 
and by heating them and passing a cur- 
I'lMit of air over them, he obtains cyanide 
of soda from which ammonia and bi¬ 
carbonate of soda are readily obtained. 
By jiassing Avaste furnace gas over the 
cyanide he obtains urea. Avhich is three 
times as rich as nitrogen and nitrate of 
soda. From the cyanide, can also be 
nlitainod oxamid containing ‘>0 i)er cent 
of nitrogen. As the process of obtain¬ 
ing nitrogen from the air by electric 
current is so expensive as to be of no 
good for farmers’ use. it appears to me 
that Dr. Bucher's method is destiiu'd to 
b(' of great service to them. C. P. 
IHverton, N. .1. 
Yon have practicall.v a coi-roct under¬ 
standing of the matter, for the method 
consists merely of mixing soda ash 
(sodium carbonate) with jiowderod coke 
and a suitable catalytic substance which 
aids in bringing about the union of the 
nitrogen and the other materials. For 
this ])urpose iron has been used success¬ 
fully. When Prof. Bucher first attempted 
to employ the method air Ava.s passed 
over these materials at a temperature, 
we understand, between 800 degrees and 
000 degrees, but it was found subse- 
(lueiitly that much better results could 
be secured by using nitrogen gas in 
place of ordinary Avater. 
One of the great difficulties with this 
process is that the material is likely to 
fuse if heated too highly, and Avhen 
fusion results the chemical action does 
not go on properly. In order to avoid 
this the temperature has to be A^ery 
carefully controlled. Probably this can 
be done quite satisfactorily by electrical 
apparatus. Furthermore, it Avas found 
necessary to put the material into the 
form of hrickets so as to insure a better 
contact of the gases with the soda, coke 
and catalytic agent. We understand 
that one of the chief difficulties met with 
has been the rapid destruction of the 
tubes in Avhich the contact is brought 
about. 
Sodium cyanide is being manufactured 
to a certain extent by this process, al¬ 
though it has not yet been perfected to 
such a degree as would seem to be neces¬ 
sary to make it a fully successful oper¬ 
ation. The method is fraught with 
various technical difficulties Avhich possi¬ 
bly engineering skill Avill eA'entnally over¬ 
come to such a degree as to make it a 
success. If these technical difficulties 
could be fully overcome it would in the 
oiiinion of good chemi.'its be one of the 
cheapest and most effective methods of 
fixing nitrogen. 
I’rohahly. however, of all the methods 
noAV in ojioration in the world that con¬ 
trolled by the Germans knoAvn as the 
Haber process, which consists in the di¬ 
rect union of nitrogen and hydrogen 
gases in the presence of a suitable cataly¬ 
tic snb.stance under pressure at a cer¬ 
tain definite temperature, is the most 
economical and successful. These arc 
distinct advantages of this process and 
also technical difficulties in the way of 
its being carried out on a large scale. 
Let us hope that some genius will come 
along who Avill be able to put it on an 
economic basis Avith a minimum of cost. 
Supply of American Potash 
We have had several articles on the 
potash deposits in Western States. It 
has long been known" that numerous salt 
or “alkali” lakes in Ne'l)ra.ska contain 
potash in their Avaters. htit not until we 
Avere deiiriviHl of the German potash Avere 
the.se lakes ntiliziMl. Noav a writer in 
the Literary Digest tells of their value: 
Thi.s jiotash is I'xtracted from the nu¬ 
merous alkali lakes of North wt'stern Ne¬ 
braska. . . . The potash industry in 
Nebraska is less than two yiairs old. So 
high is the brine content of the alkali 
lakes that the potash pi'oduct ranges 
from throe to tlAm times the content of 
the product Germany shiiiped to us in the 
years gone by. One of the large jiotash 
jilants is located at Antioch, Avhich three 
years ago Avas a mere tiag station Avith a 
cattle chute for the convenionc-e of the 
cattle raisers of that section. Today it is 
a thriving little city of l.iiOO people, Avith 
electric lights, telephones, postoffice facil¬ 
ities, and a newsimper. There an* four 
such mills in actiA'e operation in Shei-i- 
dan County, Avith three or four others un¬ 
der way, and uoav comiianies are being 
formed every day. • Some of the alkali 
era! thousand dollars a day from potash 
compani(‘.s; others are h'asi'd from the 
OAvners upon a royalty basis. The State 
of Ni'braska oavus many thousands of 
acres of school lands, which are leased on 
a six per cent basis, and the revenues de- 
I'ived therefrom used for jiublic school 
jiurposes. There are numei-ous alkali lakes 
upon tlu'se school lands, and the State is 
leasing them on a royalty basis, the roy¬ 
alty UA'CM-aging 12 per cent. It is expect¬ 
ed that Avithin the next 12 months the 
school fund Avill jirofit at the rate of sev¬ 
eral thno.sand dollars a day from potash 
royalties. Until the discovery that these 
bitter-watei- lak(*s Avere rich in jiotash 
they Avere deemed a great nuisance by 
cattlemen of that .section. They cov¬ 
ered vast areas, the water Avas unfit for 
use, and* in times of storm cattle drifted 
into them and mired doAvn, perishing mis¬ 
erably. Today the ranchman Avho has an 
alkali lake upon his ranch need not Avor- 
I'y about the price of cattle—his fortune 
is as good as made. For instance, Krause 
Brothers, near Antioch, are profiting at 
the rate of from $1,100 to $1,300 a day 
from i-oyalties received on potash pro¬ 
duced from only one lake on their ranch. 
And they have other lakes not yet de¬ 
veloped. Three years ago the United 
States inanufactAired less than five per 
cent of the potash used therein. Today 
Ave are producing 25 per cent, and Ne¬ 
braska is producing 20 per cent of that. 
He : “Poor BroAvn! He has lost all 
his money in a Avild-cat mniing company.” 
She: “Mercy ! I didn’t knoAV you had to 
mine for Avild cats.”—Boston Transcript. 
