DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
153 
ON 
DETBOIT, MICH. 
MANUFACTURERS OF 
HOMESTEAD SUPERPHOSPHATE, 
HOMESTEAD COTTON, CORN, AND WHEAT GROWER, 
HOMESTEAD TOBACCO GROWER, 
Made from pure acid Blood Meat, Bone Black, and Potash. 
HOMESTEAD RAW BONE MEAL. 
Our works are among the most complete and extensive in the country, and have every appliance 
fuhrisli Standard Fertilizers at the lowest price. Our machinery is of modern and improved construction, and our 
to enable us to 
goals' are made under the guidance of an able chemist, who inspects every lot before being placed on the market. 
manufacturers of animal charcoal, we have at our hands the most valuable material used in making fertilizers 
—viz: Bone Black Dust. This fertilizing substance contains eighty per cent, of phosphate of lime, against fifty- 
five, per cent, contained in raw bones , and its well known value commands so high a price in the European markets 
tha£ but very few manufacturers of fertilizers in this country use it. Although the Homestead fertilizer costs us 
mbre to manufacture than if prepared of the materials generally used, we shall continue its present high standard, 
and place on the market a genuine pure Bone Black Phosphate. 
Redford, Mich., June 13th. 1880. 
Michigan Carbon Works, Detroit, Mich. : 
Gentlemen —The enclosed is a photograph cf Wheat v/hk.h was grown on my farm. 
Each was cut from a space of ground five feet square, and put 11. with a rum-hoe 
fertilizer drill, and seven inches apart. This is shewing a less difference than the 
field will average. This was the third crop of wheat grown on the same ground, the 
soil being sand and clay loam. Each had the same chance, with one exception—the 
best had at the rate of two hundred pounds to the acre of Homestead Superphos¬ 
phate. 
This wheat was cut the nth day of June, 1880, and weighed at the time of cutting, 
pounds and 3 pounds respectively. 
L hereby certify that the above statement is correct, according to the best of my 
knbwledge and belief. HUGH HOUK. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 13th day of August, 1880. 
ANSEL B. PIERCE, 
Notary Public, Wayne Co., Mich. 
This wheat was examined, cut and weighed by us, on the nth day of June. 1880. 
JAMES APPLING, 
ALFRED HARRIS, 
ANSEL B. PIERCE. 
Michigan Carbon Works Medina, Orleans Co., X V.. August 71 h. 1879. 
Gentlemen — Enclosed please find a photograph of some barley. This barley wa» 
grown on A. H. Poler’ s farm, four miles south of Medina, Orleans Co., New York. 
I made a frame four feet square and set it in the standing grain on the day of its 
being cut. I then cut and gathered all that stood within the frame of each, where 
there was phosphate and wbere there was no phosphate. I let it lay in the sun one 
day to cure, then weighed each ! undle as you see it on the photograph. 
The phosphate was put down with the seed with a fertilizing drill, the teeth being 
six inches apart. These bundles were cut side by side, only six inches apart. The 
one on the left of the photograph had no phosphate, and weighed twelve ounces ; the 
one on the right had one hundred and forty pounds of the Homestead Superphosphate 
to the acre, and weighed two pounds and fourteen ounces to the four feet square. 
This i: correct. 
A. H. Poler also experimented on corn, potatoes and winter wheat,with as good re¬ 
sults on each as on his barley. Of course he has not harvested his corn ; but it stands 
sixteen inches higher than the rest of tfle com, and earing one-half oettcr. 
Your«. respectfully. GKO W POLER. 
ACTUAL RESULT AT OUR SEED FARM ON LETTUCE SEED. 
Homestead produced.. 583 lbs. per acre. 116 lbs. of Lettuce Seed, at $1.25 . $145 00 
Where none was used. .. .467 
560 lbs. of Homestead, at $40 per ton . xi 20 
Difference in favor of Homestead ... .116 
Actual profit per acre.. ..$133 
D. M. FERRY & CO. 
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*** Send for Circulars, giving full reports of results, and all particulars in regard to use. 
In places where we have no authorized agents we will send sample barrels of 200 lbs. Home¬ 
stead Superphosphate on receipt of $4.00; Cotton, Corn and Wheat Grower, $5.00 ; Homestead lo- 
bacCd Grower, $6.00. - 
ODORLESS 
Prepared Expressly for Lawns, Flower Gardens, Pot and House Plants. 
DIRECTIONS.—Use three tablespoonfuls of the manure to a gallon of water. S*ccp twelve hours before 
using 1 , 'and keep well stirred while being apnlied. Do not apply oftener than once in two weeks. 
( Box containing 10 lbs..$* 00 
PRICES, { “ “ 25 lbs. 2 00 
/ “ * k 50 lbs. . 4 00 
Sent anywhere in the United States or Canada, by express or freight, on receipt of cash orders. 
Good Agents Wanted In Every Town. 
