The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-03-21
Fertilizers.

The Fertilizer Bulletin Of the
Maryland Experiment Station is
just at hand at the Office of the
Horticultural Supply Company and
1t is always one of the most valuable
bulletins that we receive, not only
because it is interesting in itself to-
anyone fond of chemistry and plant
feeding, but because it is a pretty
sure guide to the buyer. 1t GER
tainly should be in every farmers
hands and carefully studied, and
may be had, as also the other bulle-
tins published, by addressing
postal to the Maryland Experiment
Station, College Park, Md.
We are reminded by it that Bal
timore is the largest manufacturer
of fertilizers of any city IN the
Union, about three-fourths of all
MISUNDERSTANDING made there
and most of the Others in the State.
Three hundred and sixty-two
brands are good many and yet the
most Of them are honestly made
and put up. This. however, does
not make them valuable necessarily
to the buyer. That can only be
determined by an experiment in
doors ike that being conducted at
our greenhouses as described in a
previous article, or on a larger scale
in the field where they are to be
used. Most men would prefer to
be relieved from thinking for them
selves, and yet it is the only thing
that pays these days. Think or
stay at the bottom, is the law.
Find out what your fields lack and
You crops need or blde a lighter
harvest of poorer products as the
sequence.
Surprising you haye found out
just about what food each of your
fields needs to feed certain crops,
these 362 analyses afford an inter-
esting study. We note "a number
of very, very poor brands such as
no man should buy. Doing so, |
should consider him about as sharp
did he buy a forty dollar brand
worth the money, add four times
its weight in sand and then pack it
over the field for his crops rations.
We give you the names of few of
these low grade brands with their
comparative worth: Crescent Sol
uble Crop Grower, Hubbard & Co.,
Baltimore, 1914; Soluble Bone,
Lechlider Bros. Hagerstown, 1888;
South Carolina Bone, same makers,
$7.97; Ursula Guano, Mt. Airy
Mfg. Co., Baltimore, 1905; Or
chilla Guano, Woodbridge Fertilizer
Co., Baltimore, S9.62.
Besides these that any VIDE
awake man ought to buy for less
than these figures or not use them,
there is evidently one downright
fraud as there was another last
year. Nothing but law which
compels an analysis of all brands
sold and the exposure of these
frauds by the local press, will drive
them out, for nine out of ten farm
ers are too dIlatory to write for the
bulletins themselves. The fraud
mentioned, came to our notice last
summer and is called Natural Plant
Food. 1t was announced by sheets
of poetry or in poetic manner, we
forget which, telling how nature
had prepared just about the only
complete food for plants ever dis
covered, and this company were
enjoying a big boom in it's intro
duction. Anyone at all acquainted
with science could read between the
lines a description of South Caro-
lima rock, which is a valuable fer
tilizer, but evidently this man
graduated in lies before shipping
day, for the Station only found in
a sample taken at Oakland, forty
eight cents worth of actual plant
food to the ton. Think Of it, 48
cents to the ton. Think of a
farmer too poor to take the Rural
Nev Yorker or any other good