Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-08-09
.EUBANKS GIVES VIEWS
ON FERTILIZER BILL
Writes What Results VIII Be
if BIaIock-CabaniSS Meas
ure Is Passed

Editor The Journal: There is being
a great deal said in regard to the Bla-
lock- Cabaniss fertilizer bill, or anti
filler bill. as it is usual called. If this.
as introduced, shoud become law it
would eliminate al artificia filters in the
manufacture of chemicals or the mixing
of fertilizers. Make weights, as they
are called, which are substances not
containing available plant food. Many
are having their say in the matter but
none, as far as have seen, has touched
the most vital point at issue, the one
that concerns the farmers and should
very much concern all who live upon
the products of the farm There are
three elements of plant food that we
are most deficient in, in this section of
the country, namely:
Phosphoric acid and nitrogen. Phos-
phoric acid for making fertilizer is prin-
cipally derived from phosphate rock,
some is derived from animal bone. Most
all potash for this purpose is derived
from German potash, kainit, etc. The
sources are good The sorces from
which nitrogen is derived are many and
while it is the most costly element
used in fertilizer of all the elements
known to science, it is said to be the
most unstable. 1t is just here that the
point at issue is in hiding. No one, not
even the great chemists of the state,
have touched the real point that most
concerns us as farmers.
COTTON SEED MEAL.
Manipulators in the mixing of fertil-
izers, and who are DESTROYS of giving
the farmer a square deal use cotton
seed meal Slaughter house refuse.
both hog and cattle tankage, or fish
scraps; in some sections castor bean
pumies. These being of animal and
vegetable sources are called organic
forms. While these goods contain other
elements, it is used principally for its
ammonia or nitrogen. Being in SUBJ
stance organic matter it must decay be-
fore yielding up its nitrogen. Expert
ence shows that this occurs according to
nature just before and during the fruit
ing and maturing season of long-season
crops, as in the case of cotton, corn,
yams, sugar cane. and many other i'm
portant cops. Organic matter decaying
in soil, too. assists materially in as
Stimulating the other elements which go
into growth and maturity of vegetable
life Most any of the grades mentioned
by some of the manufacturers and
chemists can be made fro mthe above
line of ammoniates, mixed with 16 per
cent phosphoric acid and with kainit. as
the sources of potash using muriate Of
potash in the higher grades.
Referring especially to Chemist A. NJ
Lloyds card of August 3 in The Journal
attacking Hon. w. L. Peek's position
on this subject, with apologies to Colonel
Peek, knowing his imminent ability to
handle his side OF the question, but
1 think there are times when important
issues are confronting us that we must
take hold. of them in a way to force
our claims, even though we are accused
by the opposition Of making a political
play. If the measure is radical. why
don't some one offer something better
though the point in. DR.. Lloyd's card is
the grades of fertilizers mentioned in his
card in making hts silk and velvet COM
parison, a 10-4-4 and a 9-4-6, and his
calico S-2-2 and 1922 in which you may
see the stamps and stripes of filler, make