Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-10
EXTRAORDINARY FARMERS GET EXTRAORDI-
 NARY RESULTS

EWrftten Specially for The Bulletin.) 1 Talking the other day about hay land fertilizers, expressed the belief Hhat a free use of commeTcia1 fertn- Azer would increase the average crop. n also expressed the belief that, gen. tera1ly. the fertilizer would cost more Ethan the increased crop it brought would sell for.
 ! Since then I've seen an account of tof Grafton and Upton, Mass, who is Ereported to make money out of hay by Hihe use Of commerciaal fertilizers. In "a long interview with a representa- &5ve of The New England Homestead khe tells his story of hay and peaches. FThe peach part we'll drop out of con- sstderation. The hay part is one in which every farmer may naturally be supposed to take interest. / For every Mariner, no matter what else he raises, salso raises hay.
 la the first place 1t seems that MT. EMortimer owns about 325 acres, of Awhicl he mows something like seventy. EHe cuts regularly full three tons to Ethe acre; last summer between 240 and t250 tons from the seventy acres. He Euses 600 pounds of fertilizer DO the aero which he reckons costs him about E$10 an acre.. He sold his hay last winter in Worcester, eight miles from hhe farm, at SPA, $24.50 and $25 g. ton. delivered loose.
 It is not stated but may. I sup spose be assumed that the average hay crop thereabouts is in the vicinity of two tons to the acre. With tlat as- sumption it apears that MT. Mortimer increases his yield a full ton to the acre by the use of $10 worth of com imercial fertilizer, and that he sells fIis extra ton at SPA or $25, fndicat- &<,x, above fertilizer cost. Mir. Mortimer iintimates rather strongly that any body can do the same, though he doesn't say so in just those words. He does say: Its all a matter of work hnd intelligent application of proper get my crop started carly That's the whole secret of growing three tons to an acre in dry year, and do 1t by fertdIizing just as soon as the ground opens up. Usually this Is about the middle of April. My grass gets a good start when other grass on other farms is just getting above ground" a-I quote that much fin full, because there is an idea in it which might be worth considering by a good many of a1s. Grass isn't frost-tepder crop and isn't liable to injury from spring freezes following it's start, aI It certainly
 
 begfns to grow, the longer season it will have and the bigger it ought to Fe. It isn't necessary that one should arso commercial fertilizer to start 1t, either. Good yard or stable manure, thinly spread as a op-dresSing, will do it. That we all know. The ques- lion about that is whether we've got enough and whether we have the time to put it on.
 To como back to Mir. Mortimer's profit from the use of commercial fer ffiizer of an apparent $14 Or $15 a ton Ut is stated that the price he got for nis hay was "A a ton over the regular nrarket price of baled hay in the same city. Those of us who have lived long Hnough to understand about the course of market prices will -&s once see thai Class of exceptions.
 For some reason the few buyers who nn any city, are always ready to pay b fancy price for goods which hap ben to strike their fancy were will Hng to pay $4 a ton more for the Nor. hmer hay than other hay was sell. Ing for. This class is always an6 everywhere a limited one. Its capacity for absorption of hay is small and When filled, refuses moro. WhereupoI Ehe prdce of even the fanciest of ths eancy crops to the common level. ss against the teachings of universa experience to suppose that, if ever, Earmer in Worcester county should Fazse as good crops of as good ha. as Mir. Mortimer, they could all get from the regular trade in Worcester as fancy prices as the exceptiona Mortimer gets for his exceptional hay Theirs and his would at once conn theirs and his. have to go at the reg nlar price established for the averag. Into the same grading, and all of fl supplied grade.
 In other words, if all the othe farmers Of Worcester county shoul' raise just such hay as MT. Mortime they wouldn't get the extra $4 8. ton h
 now gets. Nor would he, either
 They'd all get just ths +Teglilar norma
 market price for hay,
 Now about ths fertilizer, MT. Mprti.
 naer mixes his own. He buys the in,
 sTedients in carload lots and, in viev