Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-04-26
ABSOLUTELY PURE

if they could put the necessary fer,il;..
elements into a smaller rather tban ns
larger compass. 'naa
good cook DOESN'T use cheap snysr,,
-four and stale eggs Just because tLs,. ~
less. To MAKE cheap fertilizer woslS ~
just as sensible as for the cook To s eoa. e
mize on eggs, sugar and milk ana ~
three times as much pumpkin and go
twice as thick. 1t would be more nie y
measured by the square foot. but M - =
with any. respect Tor his stomach wonIs
eat ~. never Duy a low-grade fsrtilizs,
just because it is cheap.
Certain forms OF plant food arc -
valuable than others. For examnIe t HUE
is lot of nitrogen in ground heath
made from old boots and shoes M.
chemist can find it but the plant cor1
There is good deal more difference in vsi
ne to the plant between the NITROGEN 4
nitrate of soda and that OF leather tbsn - u
difference in value to a man between ror.-.
house steak and a meek piecen emf -.
the same beef. II the Bradley Fertil; H..
Company should use leather 10 furnish :
high per cent of nitrogen, they might H.
celve the chemist who cannot detect n
presence, but not SO with the plant .Whicb
cannot thrive on leather.
Putting the Fertilizer Together
There is no use trying to describe n.
vast and complicated machinery n tbis
factory. There is too much of il for ~
average mind TO comprehend Fifteenen.
gines and seven large boilers give liie "a
the wheels and belts that run over man
acres OF space. Devices for mixing, grind.
ing, lifting and carrying are found every.
where. steam power mixer is far surer
and more accurate than any man WITH
shovel, hoe and sieve ever can be. The
different ingredients are thrown ina littls
at time. Great iron fingers run through
them, scoops like giant hands throw them
back and forth together; they are shaken
as by giants wrist, stirred. shaken up
ana stirred again, until the mixture IS ab
solutely perfect. No farmer with ordirs.
ry tools working on barn floor can do
anything like il. A man might Just as well
attempt TO compete with a spade against
steam plow as TO put "home mixing
against the wonderful accuracy and me.
chanical skill Of this factory. Every ap-
pliance known to the art is here in use.
From crushing TO bagging, every possible
item OF unskilled hand labor is saved. 10
handle these great mountains OF fertilizers
with shovels alone would require an army
OF laborers, and the work could not be near
ly so uniformly done as by these machines.
Even the bags arc made at the factory
end three big printing presses are used for
printing the brands and analyses on them.
There is a big machine shop where almost
any machine III use can be duplicated
There is no waste about the place, moth
ing worth wasting is ever bought and
nothing Is lost. A farmers manure fac.
tory is his harnyard, where the rain often
washes half the value OF his manure into
The river. There is no "wash" from this
faptorN-- -oran the f,tu,au fbot oo,,,a g..
the chimney have been ''siftedn so that all
The valuable gases are taken out OF them.
Bones are steamed before grinding, 10
soften them and get rid Of the fat This
heat drives off some OF the nitrogen, but il
Is all caught again and held for use The
act Is, these works are so vast and COM
Diete that they are beyond the comprehen-
ZION OF the ordinary visitor. Let farmer
20 there and realize that this great estab-
ishment has grown from one single small
and he will surely be impressed
With the fact that these goods must have
merit or these works never could have
yro~n to their present proportions, the larg
st tertilizing establishment in the world.
A Word to 'sHome Mixers"
The Bradley Fertilizer Company own
thousands of acres of land in different
,arts OF the country, where their fertilizers
re carefully tested. Ihelr experiences on
hese farms have enabled them TO test
'oods OF every conceivable form and
trength. They believe that the use of re-
liable fertilizers will be increased from
ear to year as farmers study the question
nd are thus led TO see the real economy OF
hemical fertilization. There is a tenden-
y among a few farmers to experiment
18th ''home mixing" or with simple mix
ares of chemicals, but certainly no one
an visit this factory without being con-
inced, as was the writer, that it is utter.
! impossible to compete by shovel and
oe with these powerful mills and great
liking machines.
Fertilizers have come to stay. There can
e no doubt about that. As rule, the sub
ances used in fertilizers can find no other
use. They are waste products
ade useful. Who can oaject to that?
H. W. c.