Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-06
Buyinq Fertilizers.

our state legislatures are doing
"nat they can to protect the people
asainst low grade fertilizers. Some
" the states require the experiment
seations to publish special bulletins
Oh Fertilizers and send them to all the
farmers that want them. This is to
spread the information among the
'afmers as rapidly as possible. II
'ur farmers would avail themselves
u these opportunities more than
ncy do they would be the gamers.
Inc fertilizer trade is already very
arse one in the East and is growing
apply in the West. All the informa.
tlon That can be gained should be laid
loid OF. Our best fertilizer firms are
'elilng only good materials and are
as anxious as the farmers can be to
Keep the poor goods out of the mar.
let. Any attempt to enforce the fer.
lllzer laws always has the support
u these companies, for their worst
enemies are the small companies that
are selling inferior goods at a low
price. The farmer thinks he is get.
ing bargain in buying these cheap
soods and so goes to the men that sell
I'm the poorest stuff and make the
.!ost out of him. II the men that are
selling the cheap fertilizers sold it as
20" as 10 the men that sell only high
grade fertilizers the men that sell the
DOOR stuff would have to go out of
BUSINESS. They sell the poor stuff
'ad make money by really getting for
the fertilizers contained a greater
price than the others do. The farmer
IS finding this out only slowly.
Some of the large firms stoop to
create. bogus companies that sell this
material. The writer happened in the
territory of one such firm doing bust.
ness in the southern part of Illinois.
Inc large firm in question had an
agency in the place and this agency
sent out two sets of agents, one set
representing the agency and the 9TH
er representing a fictitious company
supposed to be located in the same
place. The cheap material was work.
ed off under the name of the bogus
company and generally on farmers to
whom could not be sold the high.
priced goods, but who wanted some.
thing cheap. 1t was found best to
sell mostly to farmers too far away to
come to the place and look I'D the
headquarters. But one day a farmer
who had been buying the CHEAP goods
came into the agency referred to and
said he was very much dissatisfied
with the fertilizers of the COMPANY
ne had been buying of, and he wanted
to be directed to their store. The
agent Informed him that the company
ne was looking for had formerly been
located in that neighborhood, but had
ceen burned out and had gone out of
business, but that he would be glad
TO supply the farmer with goods that
could not be found fault with.
The farmer that is always looking
at the price and not at the quality
at the same time is always getting
beaten in his trades. 1t is impossible
that it should be otherwise as long
as there are INSCRIPTIONS men that
ere making living in. commercial
ventures.
Professor Hopkins has been telling
the farmers that they must ignore ev.
er:thing in fertilizers except the ele.
ments that they are looking for, and
e is right. 1t is not a question of
low many tons Of fcrtilizing material
farmer buys, but of how many
pounds of potassium, phosphorus and
nitrogen he is getting, and at what
cost per pound.