DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
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HIGAN CARBON WORK 
DSTr.OXT, Xv£ICH. 
MANUFACTURERS OF 
HOMESTEAD SUPERPHOSPHATE, 
HOMESTEAD COTTON, CORN, AND WHEAT CROWER, 
HOMESTEAD TOSACCO CROWER, 
Made from pure acid Blood Meat, Bone Black, and Potash. 
HOMESTEAD RAW BONE MEAL. 
Our works arc among the most complete and extensive in the country, and have every appliance to enable us to 
furnish Standard Fertilizers at the lowest price. Our machinery is of modern and improved construction, and our 
goods are made under the guidance of an able chemist, who inspects every lot before being placed on the market. 
As 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 
that but very few manufacturers of fertilizers in this country use it. Although the Homestead feiti.izer costs us 
more 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 of Wheat which was grown on my farm. 
Each was cut from a space of ground five feet square, and put in with a mne-hoe 
fertilizer drill, and seven inches apart. This is showing 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 haa 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, 
6^ pounds and 3 pounds respectively. 
I hereby certify that the above statement is correct, according to the best of my 
knowledge 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., N Y.. August 7th, 1879. 
Gentlemen —Enclosed please find a photograph of some barley. 1 his barley was 
grown on A. H. Poler’s farm, four miles south of Medina, Orleans Co., New York. 
1 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 where there was no phosphate. I let it lay in the sun one 
day to cure, then weighed each bundle 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 ap.ut. The 
one on the left of the photograph had no phosphate, and weighed twelve ou ccs ; the 
one on the right had 011c hundred and forty pounds of the Homestead Superph -sj hate 
to the acre, and weighed two pounds and fourteen ounces to the four feet square. 
This is correct. 
A. H. Poler also experimented on corn, potatoes am! winter wheat, with as good re¬ 
sults on each as on his barley. Of course he hits not harvested his corn ; hut it stands 
sixteen inches higher than the lest of the corn, and earing onc-half better. 
Yours, respectfully, GEO. 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 non : was used . ...467 “ “ 560 lbs. of Homestead, at $40 per ton . 11 20 
Difference in favor of Homestead . . .116 
Actual profit per acre.$*33 80 
D. M. FERRY & CO. 
%* 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 To¬ 
bacco Grower, $6.00. - 
OIDOIESLIEISS PLCK^lLIS. 
Prepared Expressly for Lawns, Flower Gardens, Pot and House Plants. 
DIRECTIONS. —Use three tablespoonfuls of the manure to a gallon of water. S'ecp twelve hours before 
using:, and keep well stirred while being applied. Do not apply oftener than once in two weeks. 
Box containing 10 lbs.$1 00 
PRICES, 
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25 lbs 
50 lbs 
Sent anywhere in the United States or Canada, by express or freight, on receipt of cash orders. 
Good Agents AVnnt,o<l In Every Town. 
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