299 
& 
An analysis made June 27, by Dr. F. A. Genth, for the Pennsylvania 
Board of Agriculture, gave the following results: 
Lbs. A 
faa Hi Per cent. per ton. Value. 
Sombie phosphoric acid... 2.2.7... - none , 
BE ae te eG Moe Ree oe ae 
(0 TLART 5 SRO ng a a a 0.70 14 0.56 
A a 0.14 2.8 0.14 
(CEL EES SUS sb RS Rg a al oe ere hee 22.8 4,10 
Comparative commercial value per ton..-.---..---------- $ 5.99 
Selling price per ton at point of selection.....-.-.-. ...-- 35.00 
We will give the manufacturer the benefit of the advertisement 
| by re-publishing his circular, which reads as below: 
Mason’s high grade potash fertilizer for all crops, the only fertil- 
izer in the world manufactured from wood. Manufactured by 
Mason’s Fertilizer Co., Binghampton, N. Y. | 
Some reasons why farmers should use Mason’s potash fertilizer. 
This is the only fertilizer in the world produced from wood. <A few 
years ago you would not have thought that the paper you read could 
have been manufactured from wood, but it is, and is conceded by 
all printers one of the best and most durable papers ever used. Now, 
we call the farmers’ attention for a few moments to hard wood ashes. 
We ask them if they are a good fertilizer. Their answer is they are 
one of the best they ever used. If we could only get enough of them 
we would want no other fertilizer for our crops, as they say that the 
ashes is good for all crops, especially for wheat. 
Now, we are placing before the farmers a fertilizer five times bet- 
ter than hard wood ashes, and at a low price, so all farmers can use 
it. Now, what we call the attention of the farmersto isthis: Their 
good judgment will teach them that a fertilizer produced from the 
tree, containing fifteen per cent. potash, would be natural for the 
soil to retain it, as it is vegetable matter, and once grown from the 
soil. Now, think of year after year how you have robbed your land 
of all that has grown upon it, and put nothing back to feed it. 
You will agree with us if we tell you that grape growers through- 
out the country know when they have burnt brush upon the soil 
before setting grape vines, the best of results have been produced, 
both in vine and quality of grape, by the ashes, together with other 
chemical properties from the wood, which have entered into the 
earth. We therefore beg to call the special attention of the grape 
growers to our fertilizer, as it is of such a quality as to be a natural 
food for the vine and grape, and is the only fertilizer ever produced 
from wood, and supplying the earth with that property which the 
vine in growing has exhausted. 
All crops require more or less potash. The potato requires pot- 
ash, as that itself when burnt the ashes is from 8 to 10 per cent. pot- 
ash—the wheat the same. You feed any crop what it likes, natural 
food, and it will thrive. The same as your pig in the pen. If you 
feed him all the corn and milk he wants he will grow fat, but if you 
give him something that he does not like, he will not eat, and for 
weeks you can see no difference. It is just so with your crops. 
