Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-08
Important TO Every Farmer.

WITHIN REACH OF ALL.
From the American Agrieultur.i for April.
All the talk about "Progressive
Farming" "Improved Agriculture"
"Science Applied to Farming" has
two objects the increase of the
farmers knowledge and of his crops.
If farmer must invest $40 to get
$50 Of increase from field, it is poor
science, and poor farming; but If
by investing So on a field the increas-
ed crops brings him $4,000, then
"Scienee Applied TO Farming" pays,
and it pays him TO know the reason
why. There are some settled points
in agriculture. Among these are: |.
All soils, excepting of course the
virgin ones OF the newer States. for
profitable culture must be manured.
:. The larger the crop upon an acre,
the cheaper per bushel, ton, etc,
should that crop be raised. 3. In
our ordinary farming no farmer
makes all the manure that he could
profitably use upon his farm. 4.
The main value of manure (stable or
barn yard depends upon certain con-
stituents, and these may be had in
other forms in artificial or chemical
fertilizers. 3. All soils do not alike
need the same fertilizers. 6. 1t is
a we'll established fact that while it
will pay the farmer to buy the fertil-
izers his soil needs, it is waste of
money TO buy and apply to his soil,
constituents of which it already has
enough. The question will naturally
follow-how can we find out what
the soil needs 2 1t is to help every
farmer TO answer these questions
"What does my soil need - "What
fertilizer can buy that will pay n
profit in crops 7" that the american
Agricuiturid experiments were in
stituted. These experiments were
begun in 1873, and were continued
last year. Several results were given
last month, and this month we pre-
sent on page 1876, in a tabulated
form, any array of facts that will
convince the most sceptical that the
right fertilizers in the right place
will pay. And not only pay, but the
profit on the investment is often such
as TO help answer The vexed question:
"Will Farming PayY" These results
we're obtained by just such men as
you, "Farmer A." or you, "Farmer
b." on just such farms as yours, and
by just such means as are within
your reach. These men are farmers,
like yourselves.
Now there are thousands, yes, tens
Of thousands, of just such men rs
these all over the country every
township, every neighborhood, has
one or more readers of the American
Agricuiiurist, who would have the
same knowledge of their own fields
that these farmers have of their soils.
If these farmers knew that it would
pau to buy Potash, or Phosphoric
Acid, or Nitrogen, they would buy
IL, but they cannot afford to run
many risks. 1t is evident that every
one of these experimenting farmers
now knows better, to certain extent,
Just what he wants and does not
want TO put upon his land this year.
Not a farmer who reads this but
would gladly give S. or 80 to know
as TO his farm what these people
know as to theirs. There is no way
in which the information can be had
so cheaply and so certainly as that
by which these farmers acquired 1t.
They asked the soil, and the soil re.
sponded. The questions were In the
bags of the American Agricultural
Fertilizer Experiments.