JAMES J. H. GREGORY’S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
A glance will show that each of these manures is a reliable 
article the first two being remarkably rich in ammonia, while 
the second is as remarkably rich in soluble phosphates. At the 
standard price for the ammonia and phosphoric acid, viz. : 25 
cents per lb. for ammonia, 16^ for soluble phosphoric acid, and 
6 cents for insoluble, we find the Animal Dust worth from 
$56.00 to $60.00 per ton, and the Riverside Phosphate 
about $70.00. Ammonia is the more stimulating article in ma- ; 
nures, while the phosphates are the more lasting in their 
effects. These manures, should never be brought in direct con¬ 
tact with the seed. In very dry seasons, all special fertilizers, 
such as Guano, Bone dust and Phosphates, do not give as satis¬ 
factory results as in seasons of average moisture. For grass, 
use 300 to 500 lbs. per acre ; for grain, 400 to 700 lbs. ; for 
corn, potatoes and vegetables, 500 to 800 lbs. 
There is a coarse, very cheap manure, rich in ammonia and 
phosphates, made where salt fish is prepared for market. This 
consists of the skins and fins of fish with some flesh attached, 
and not far from a quarter of its weight of salt. This is excel¬ 
lent for beets, mangolds, cabbages and almost any crop, vine 
crops excepted. I am unable to give specific directions for its 
application, as my use of it thus far has been in composts. 
Price, put on board cars, with no charge for barrels, $14.00 a 
ton, or $1.50 per barrel of about 200 lbs * 
GERM A 1ST POTASH SALTS. 
There is a cheap form of crude potash in the market, known 
as German salts of potash. The sulphate contains about 
twenty-five per cent, of sulphate cf potash, and the muriate 
about eighty per cent. The potash in each cf these forms is 
about five eighths pure. Potash is like ammonia and phosphate, 
an excellent manure in combination for all common crops. Ow¬ 
ing to the proportion of salt conffftiied, I would not advise the 
direct application until the plants are up, but if used broadcast, 
it will be perfectly safe to apply it before planting the seed. 
The 'price of the sulphate is $30.00 per ton ; of the muriate, 
$65.00, or $4.00 and $8.00 respectively for bags containing about 
225 lbs. Delivered on cars or boats without additional charge. 
Agricultural Treatises. 
Cabbages : How to Raise Them. By James J. II. Greg¬ 
ory, Marblehead, Mass. 
This treatise gives all the minute instructions so valuable to 
the beginner. It begins with the selecting the ground, and 
carries the reader along step by step, through the preparing of 
the soil, manuring, ploughing, planting, hoeing, weeding, gath¬ 
ering the crop, storing and marketing it, with a hundred minute 
details embracing every department of the subject. 
To prepare myself the more thoroughly to write this work I 
experimented on foreign and native varieties of cabbage for 
four years, raising not far from seventy kinds. The gist of mv 
experience will be found in this treatise. It is illustrated by 
several fine engravings. I have in the present edition added a 
page on the green'worm that is causing so much trouble 
some localities. Price, 30 cents. 
m 
Onion Raising ; Wiiat Kinds to Raise, and the Way 
to Raise them. By J. J. H. Gregory, Seed Grower, 
Marblehead, Mass. 
This work, which I issued in 1865, has been warmly recom¬ 
mended by some of the best authorities in the country, and 
has gone through eight editions. It treats on Onions raised 
from seed, Potato Onions, Onion Sets, Top Onions, Shallots 
and Rareripes, the Onion Maggot, Rust, the merits of the 
different varieties of Onions, instructions in seed raising, and 
how to tell good seed,—beginning with the first step of select¬ 
ing the ground, and carrying the reader along step by step 
through the preparing of the soil, manuring, ploughing,*plant¬ 
ing, hoeing, weeding,gathering the crop, storing and marketing 
it, with a hundred minute details embracing every department 
of the subject. 
Illustrated with thirteen engravings of Onions, Sowing- 
Machines and Weeding Machines. 
Single copies sent by mail, prepaid, for thirty cents. Seed 
dealers and booksellers supplied at the usual discount. 
Squashes ; How to Grow them. By James J. II. Greg¬ 
ory, Marblehead, Mass. 
This treatise is of about the same size and style as my 
treatise on “ Onion Raising,” and contains several illustrations 
including a section of my squash house, with full directions for 
erecting one. In plan and thoroughness it is similar to my 
Onion treatise, very miniUe and thorough. Beginning with the 
selection |O§>S 0 il j if treats of the best way of preparing it ; the 
best mankfes, and flie way to apply them ; planting the seed, 
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protecting the vines from bugs and maggot, the cultivating, 
gathering, storing and marketing of the crops,—giving hun¬ 
dreds of minute details so valuable to inexperienced cultivators. 
I have written this and my other treatises on the theory that 
what the public want is minuteness and thoroughness of detail. 
Thu price of this is thirty cents sent by mail post paid. Dealers 
supplied at discount. 
If after reading either of these works, any person thinks he 
has not had his money’s worth, let him return them and I will 
return the money, as I intend that every man shall have his 
quid pro quo, 
A First Class Bools for Farmers and Gardeners. 
AMERICAN MANURES.’ 
1931 
A description of the elements and composition of 
plants and soil—the theory and practice of com¬ 
posting—the value of stable manure and many 
OTHER KINDS USED BY FARMERS, AND A CHEMICAL ANAL¬ 
YSIS OF MANY OF THE PRINCIPAL MANUFACTURED FER¬ 
TILIZERS,—THEIR ASSUMED AND REAL VALUE AND A 
FULL EXPOSE OF THE FRAUDS PRACTICED UPON PUR¬ 
CHASERS. By Prof. William II. Bruckner. 
This is one of the boldest works issued from the -Agricultural 
Press ; it handles without gloves, the ignorance, conceit and 
rascality that has so much to do with the manufacture of the 
Phosphates and other artificial fertilizers of the day. Bv the 
analysis given in this work we find that we have been paying 
from $40 to $60 per ton for many phosphates whose real value 
is from $10 to $30 per ton. Besides this, it presents in a very 
dear way, so that any farmer can easily understand it the 
whole matter of manures and their application. Every farmer 
will, find it a capital work for himself and his growing boys. 
It is assort of an agricultural college between two covers. Iri 
its estimate of the value of the Superphosphates it allows no 
value for the insoluble portion ; and this is a correct estimate 
for those farmers who buy fertilizers only for what can be got 
from them the first season ; still as in many phosphates this 
and the returned portions, under certain conditions, become 
sooner or later soluble, to do full justice to the manufacturer, 
I beheve we should credit him with some value. The chemists 
of Germany (where the matter has been very fully discussed) 
have decided that the insoluble portion is worth 6 cents per 
pound and {lie returned 13J cents. If, then, we add to the 
editor’s valuation, at the rate of six cents per lb. for the portion 
of m^oluble phosphates and 13J cents per lb. for the u re¬ 
turned portion, we shall credit the manufacturer with the 
utmost market value of his fertilizer. 1 will send this book of 
*60 pages by mail prepaid, to any of my customers at the 
publisher’s price, viz. ; $1 50. 
