The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-02-26

under 231 names.
One manufacturer calls 1t Special Grain Fer
tilizer," Gem Fertilizer" "Cottonseed Meal
Guano," Complete Fertilizer, Gem Tobacco
Fertilizer" and "Cottonseed Meal Tobacco Fer
tilizer. and II every of them are not sacked
out of the same pile. they could easily be. for they
are all the same identical thing.
Others call the thing Special Wheat Fertil-
izer" Soluble Guano." big Yield Guano" Pre-
MUM Guano for Cotton, Tobacco and All Spring
Crops" Special Fertilizer, Circle Fertilizer"
Carolina Guano Standard =. ID. Fertilizer"
General" Standard Cotton Grower. "siaugh-
terhouse Fertilizer" Cotton Compound Gen
uine Eagle Island" Triumph Soluble" Purity
Guano." Crop Grower" Pacific Guano." Fish
Guano" Chemical Game Guano.' Royal Crop
Grower" Special Compound for Tobacco" Cal
vert Guano." Bone superphosphate' Crop
Worker" "Ammoniated Dissolved Bone AMI
NAL Bone and Potash Compound for All Crops."
Honest Ammoniated Bone Red Letter for To-
bacco." Alliance for Tobacco Leader of To-
baeeo," Cereal Guano' * Guano.' Long Leaf
Tobacco Grower" old Reliable Premium Tar
Heel Guano." Cotton Queen" summer Queen"
standard Corn Grower. Blood and Bone Cotton
Compound" "old Plantation" "Plow Brand"
"Up-to-Date." Home Run" Special High Grade
Plant Food" Champion Cotton and peanu,
Grower" Extra Tobacco Guano." Champion
Cuano." Profit" Carolina Special" Green.
County Standard. "Uneedii Cotton Grower"
"occonecchee Tobacco Guano." Harvest King"
Grange Mixture" and all through the iist
too numerous TO print here.
And every one Of them Is the old $50. And
doubtless many farmers have had discussions as
10 the merits of the different brands some pre-
ferring one and some other and every paying
for sackng and freightinE In every ION one-fourth
OF the ton of worthless sand other cheap nli.r
Why Is 1t that the manufacturers put up tho
same thing under many namesT simply be-
cause they know that farmers are always looking
for something NJ a iow price. imagining that los
price means cheapness. when in the case Of fer
tizer II means the top notch for all that tn In !,
of value. and the handling and treightng of thou
sands OF tons of worthless "niler."
The manufacturers not TO blame They
are simply meeting the demand from the farmcrs-
They know that they could send all that Ia OF
value In 2-s-2 fertilizers in i.260 TO 300
pounds. but the farmer wants n ton for bis
money. and give him alton By putting In the sand
to make IT, And one farmer wants ono brand
and another another brand. and they take both
out OF the same pile. and the only difference II
the brand the sack
And the farmers go on freighting sand and COZ
tending that one brand IL better than another
out of the same heap Of many names And tho
manufacturers. doubtless. have many "A laugh at
the gullibiity OF the farmers. who are annually
freighting thousands Of tons of sand aud paying
- afmp6 uNNanh" Ahs3 40 not aAuuf
their soi and ind what they need TO buy and
what they do not need
And they imagine that this mixture of fertilizer
ana sand Ii cheaper than a high grade mixture
because the manufacturer can sell aand cheaper
than he can sell good plant food. And thousands
annually use but 200 pounds per acre OF this
sand and fertilizer mixture expecting that the s3
pounds OF nitrogen in IL will have some effect
"hen spread over whole acre. when a crop OF
crimson clover would give them mora nitrogen
tan is In whole ton of the sand and fertilizer
mixture.
HOW long will farmers refuse 10 use their
srans?