St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-02-14

1 Cu0ulCalS ana mixes ul6 OWu UI1uu
of fertilizers he will begin to study
the needs of his soil and crops in
stead of letting the fertilizer man
do it for him
End. Only high grade materials
Will be used, dirt and other stuff used
as a filler will be left out, causing
better grade of fertilizer to be
used and made.
3rd. Special mixtures can be pre-
pafed to suit the needs of each field,
each acre, and to suit the needs of
the crop to be grown.
4th. BY clubbing together in each
ne1ghborhood and buying the chem;
Gals IN large quantities you can save
at least 80 per cent of your fert Ezer
bill every year
9th. You can do as good mixing
at home under some shed or out
building as the factory can and you
would forget OF pat in the filler.
9Th. When a farmer buys his
chemicals and does his own mixing
he soon finds that nitrogen IS the
most expensive element in any fertil-
izer and learns that phosphor-c &C.
and potash are the cheapes: ele
ments.
The last point is worth lots to the
farmer # he will study it bit. Nit
rogen is costly, each l per cent of
ton will cost about 81 Now, sup
pose you buy fertilizer ready mixed
for corn or sugar cane and the nitro
gen content is derived from nitrate
of soda, and you put the fertilizer
down before planting the crop and
we have lots of rain afterwards be-
fore the crop begins to feed on the
fertilizer, your money is wasted as
far as the nitrogen IS concerned, for
nitrate of soda should never be put
down before planting, especially
long growing crop. The company did
not tell you from what source he
obtained the nitrogen. You have no
quick way of finding out. By mix
ing the goods yourself you can leave
out or put in what you want and get
value received for your money.
Why do you think that one brand,
one mixture, is all you need on your
land when you may grow a dozen
different crops on nearly as many
kinds of soil? If your wife has lum-
bago, your daughter heart trouble,
your son sprained ankle and yourself
cholera morbus, you could not find
a ready prepared remedy or medicine
to cure all. Your family physician
would have to give special med c ne
for each disease treated. So it is
with soils and crops. All do not
need the same fertilizer any more
than all diseases need the same medl-
cine.
. II the baker was to tell you that
it was useless to buy any more flour.
suger, etc, that your wife did not
have sense enough to make cakes,
bread and pies and on this account
urge us to use his extra Hydrated
Pred igested Brand of Bread Pud-
ding, especially compounded to meet
the needs of man. woman and child,
We would be ready to "bust" our
fist on his head, knowing we'll that
he is mistaken.
Then why do you depend upon the
fertilizer manufacturer to mix your
fertilizers for you and then give it
some selling name that is appealing
to you? It IS because you have never
studied and figured on this thing
very much. Let us figure little
right here.
Suppose you want to fertilize "a
field to be planted in corn and the
land is light sandy loan with red
or yellow clay foundation. You need
! fertilizer that would analyze 10 AZ.
The ten means that the fertilizer
would contain ten per cent ava liable
acid. The four means
four per cent nitrogen and the two
means two per cent potash. How
much and of what material is best to |
use? Here is, the way to figure it |
out: The ton is regarded as unit |
ID all cases, remember. We will use
acid phosphate 16 per cent available
phosphor.c acid, nitrate of soda Is |
per cent amonia and muriate Of pot
ash 4S per cent actual potash in max
ing up the mixture, that is, we will
calculate the amount of each to be |
used in a ton of stuff that would |
analyze 1O42.
10 per cent of one ton is 200, but !
Is the acid only contains Is per cent, /
Ne say
100 100 equals 1850 pounds acid !
16 phosphate needed.