Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02
Commercial Fertilizers.

Commercial Fertilizers.
With the number of commercial fertil
izers put on the market, and with thu
number increasing yearly, it is becomin.
question of great Importance, what il
their absolute value, and how it can h,
certainly determined. Among these fer
tillzers none have attained so sudden DOB
ularty and widespread use as the "Stock.
bridge formulas The professor of arri.
culture in the Massachusetts Agricultural
College, scientific man, his formulas
came with the power of authority. and
though the articles are furnished by Il firm
dealing in fertilizers, they haze the en-
dorsement of Prot. StockbriIge, and the
formulas are put in their hands to prepare
so there shall be no errors in their putting
up, either from lack Of knowledge or lack
of integrity.
These formulas indicate the amounts of
given material necessary to be supplied to
produce given amount of the expected
product, and viewed by the light of these
predicted or expected results, the use of the
Stockbridge formula has been very much
of a failure
First on the list rs scientific authority
stands DR.. E. Lewis Sturtevant CT East
birmingham, and editor of the Scientific
Farmer, who says: Having MANFRED for
sixty bushels, our crop of forty-seven bush
els per acre must be considered failure.
1t being only a little over two-thirds of the
crop anticipated"
We notice in the Record and Farmer IN
account Of meeting of Maple Grove
Grange where the business of the evening
was the hearing of reports from those who
had experimental with the Stockbridre !
fertilizers. The reporter prefaces us fol-
lows:
The pamphlet issued by w. II. Bowker
~ Co., manufacturers of the Stockbridoe
fertilizers, gives the amount to be used for
any kind of crop, and price of same. III
states that for an acre of corn, four bags,
costing twenty-five dollars, will produce
forty to sixty bushels of shelled corn. For
IL quarter of an acre Of beets or turnips,
one bag costing six dollars, will produce
one hundred to one hundred and fifty
'"9n0'S' r"l an acre OF potatoes, two
bags, costing twelve dollars, will produce
bushels ,l j." ,, p"p n''nuLe" "h" h'ty
9,r ,'h;a, ,d t.ie anoVe are te only crops
m',,o" .,'I leieli'Aer was used; VIII
NH onl, aII Tx tl ,'oii .he P'mPhle. and
,.,,,l,I ,',,, ''''.v " pfo'''ce the amount
. u, ABOVE something will depend on ;
sqo t so', ;'ma season. some OF the members
C sto aa' w. iIloi'o', "s lolioWS:
S4ooI,ht;Joo ' -, i pDu,', useo TWO oaSS OF
l,rs ~, ~ 'n,'iufo' costing WE'VE dot-
nj ainhtm h't,,I ~ l"l"IooS' anu harvest
D"onole tlloIe per acre IMAM |
,,1 IS ~ I, in''n. t:'i was uSeu' Oh h4ii an
,,oatod . loa,n' without any MANURE har- G
',ie eu 'na steven pushels OF ears. On /
rnr, t ;am ''ole, WIN TWO p"9s otocRbrlage
"a ETY. r UoI'iIS eleseh aollarS' harvest
,ns hy o nu'"e.s e"lsIc' gam OF thirteen
e3 W. a' cosV oi eleVeh dollars. n
h,iI. c " nuer'-l USED one Dag Stock.
ff 1870 el''l,Het' costing i've dollars and
~ ~ eo".1; vi ol'e,elsl!h acre corn. appIl,
on h,shnIs " u'ieo.loDs' ana harvested il
notatoos All ' oa,,,l WI IN APpilea IL on L
H' ,bo anu o9tlu sec no special benefit. :.
,hos si oe tha hlno OF SOIL where used u
ionhIo ~ th .no sal.ie value OF otockbridge,
i ionoie 'iie quantity OF potatoes were pro /
'I Poui,on ,,u,ou 1,,
W. lii Nil.lel.-i usea one bag, costing
yoS 0 dara vi ooIn III mn ana thlnk 1t p
''i II It ~ "'' pn 10 my crop i
,on ~ 49, nanhey.-l nSed the Stockbridge fl
~ ,,,,nl ~, IN NH anu uiu not get Il
,sed avn WI II 10 "''eio ITO ierllilzef was s.
Wm r N,t,;no , t;
,tool-h,;jo. q ce"4;iis use" one Dag OF I
nr heots VA itru.lizor' costing SIX dollars, II
zero NO so; H. ' niPs' on quarter OF an S;
noiet Tbo Gart;I; ;,o S''nuy lo"il' 9eep ana il
,roadcas ct and ha NJ n,'nu''c'ufGrs' spread Il
ftv.two hnshais ho oo" In L harvested n
,ne-sixtoontb nf Nv ao.a anu 'ulhlpS' On e,
table manure bad so e t"' G yehr' win o.
also nsnd if 80, n % vo.1y ',l I'VE puSnels. ct
he wire worn,s 1917 ~ 'ilo 1illi' ouC rs fc
O satisfctorv rosIt No'' 1t '''iy' can give til