The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-02-22
What are You Going to DO About Fer.
tiIizers7

If you are not interested in fertilizers,
you can skip this article, but those who
are, those who are going to buy and
use them this year, need to study the
subject, if they would save money.
Our first advise is to send to the Ex-
pertinent Station, Burlington, t for
Bulletin No. So, unless you have it, and |
read and study it. Do not look it over
hastily and then throw it down TO get
lOsi, but keep it at hand for constant
reference. In the opinion of the writ
err, this is one of the best bulletins the
Station has ever sent out, especially on
fertilizers. Pages 110-124 are by far
the most interesting, as they relate to
home mixing, and show what Vermont
men are doing. The whole subject of
home mixing is carefully treated in
these pages. The writer has always
felt that the Station was wrong in say
ing that where large quantities of fer
tilizers were used or where several
dubbed together and bought the crude
materials, home mixing paid, but that
where only small quantity of crude
material was used, it did not pay. In
this bulletin this teaching is thrown TO
the winds and the view we have al
ways held and advocated in the WATCH
MAN is adopted by the Station. On
page ia they say sit is safe to say that
even where as little as ton is used
home mixing pays" This statement
is thus emphasized in the bulletin.
We think it marks a long step in adj
vance by the Station. And now listen.
The best way to get farmers atten-
ton is to show him how to save money,
and the facts shown up in this bulletin
ought to arouse intense interest on the
part of. every Vermont farmer. In
1897 for every dollar paid out for man
ufacturer's mixtures, sixty-seven cents
worth of plant food was obtained. But
for every dollar, paid out for crude ma
terial used in home mixtures, ninety
seven cents worth of plant food was
obtained. In 1898 one farmer bought
his crude materials of the local agent
thing farmers ought never TODD, and
thus the average price of the crude. ma
terials was raised 80 thai. the showing
is not so good,l but in that year for
every dollar paid out for crude materi-
ais, eighty-one cents worth of plant
food was obtained, while a dollar ex-
pended for manufacturers mixtures
brought only sixty-one cents worth OF
plant food. Now is not farmer very
foolish man to put his dollars where
they will bring only from sixty-one to
sixty-seven cents worth of plant food,
when by using a little business gump-
ton and head work, he can get nearly
one hundred cents worth of plant food
for his dollar? Ignorance is no excuse
Get this bulletin, read and study il, and
learn about home mixing. On every
ton of fertilizer you will save from six
dollars to nine dollars per ton by thu;
doing. That is the cost of the WATCH
MAN several times over. Buy acit
phosphate, muriate of potash, and cot
ton seed meal or nitrate of soda. The
bulletin gives full directions fol
amounts to use and directions for mix
ing. The writer knows what he il
talking about, for he has practiced buy
ing and mixing crude materials for {
dozen years, and this year will use the
same materials he is recommending t.
others. In his barn is the stock ready
for mixing, except that he will have tt
get more cotton seed meal. AS he ha:
no convenient floor to mix on, he doe:
it in large box. Now before you for
get it, send for the bulletin, read anC
practice its teachings. Every year tina,
you do it, you will be learning more
about the matter, and will be saving
more coll'rs.