Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-13
FARMERS OPPOSE LEGIsI. ALTON
 FOR RTlR1FF 0> l'ERrILlZEF

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 Twenty-Five officers. managers and di- rectors of the six cooperative exchang- es in New London county, at a meeting held Tuesday at the Farm Bureau of flee in this city adopted resolution urging their congressman to vote against any national legislation pending to place a tariff on the importation of fertilizer used in the production of farm crops.
 In addition to the officers, managers and directors of the cooperative ~ex- changes there were present J. O. Owens; crop specialist Storrs college, and MT. Nell, assistant in marketing at Storrs college and County Agent H. F. John son.
 Innbert Fellows was elected chairman of the meeting and called on Mir. Owens as the first speaker to discuss the lime situation. MT. Owens called the atten- tion of the men to the fact that an ever increasing amount of lime is being used here in Connecticut, but that many of the guarantees of the lime conlran:es, at the present time, did not mean a whole lot as they were so variable in their actual lime. He advised the mec tc urge strongly that the members of tta various exchanges buy the kind of li,ne watch will cost the least for the actual lime con tained. He illustrated his point by call ing attention to the price charged by one of the lime companies this state, which was a~oOnd $9.90 per ter. This kind of lime analysed 1745 pounds of actual lime oxides in one ton or gave a cost for each 100 pounds of lime OK ides of 56 cents. Another quality of lime sold in this state wou I cos1 per ton S7.40 delivered. This anI.yzr1 S&S pounds of actual lime oxides in one ton. oOi oh 1oo1f la going kind of lime and gi7iag a cost per 100 pounds of actual line oxides of S2 cents. He ponte': 5It st buying cn the cost of actual lin c ox.des n one ton was a much lfer method than buy ing by ton prize.
 Upon being questioned as to the fer tilizer situation he sad that the sup plies of nitrate, s1I )hate, acid phosphate and potash in :his colnlry are all very large. There ; little question nat if fertilizer manufacturers wish to sell their mixed goods at a reasonable price next spring they can do so. Indications are that they plan to hold their prices up pretty well. If this Is the case it will pay farmers to buy raw chemical fertilizers, as they did last year to a considerable 1 extent in this county, and mix their own fertilizers.
 Arthur Shedd, manager of the Preston Exchange, then reported on a meeting 1 which he attended with the county agent l at Hartford this past week, at which l plans were made hy the committee rep | resenting the cooperative exchanges in | this state and the State Farm Bureau l Federation, to call a meeting of all the 1 cooperative exchange managers for next 1 Monday, to decide whether or not a
 state fertilizer pool shall be organized l | the fertilizer situation, recently publish l ed by the Eastern States Farmers Ex- i change at Springfield This report said
 that fertilizer agents are more numerous
 and more active in the New England
 states than they ever have been before l at this season of the year A few ot ttese agents upon being questioned 1T
 regard to their avticity stated that the | farmers cooperative organizations made
 such a record in their sales last year
 that it is necessary for the regular sales ] men to increase their efforts and star
 soliciting orders at a much earlier date | From all the information that this organ
 ization has been able to gather there i
 no req son why anybody should be alarm
 ed or in haste about buying fertilizer ant
 fertilizer materials. The manufactur
 CTS of the country are heavily stocked
 with acid phosphate. There are greate
 supplies 7of nitrate of soda in the Unit
 ed States today than it is believed t
 be consumed in the next 12 months an'
 in addition to this. it is authentically
 thought there are 100000 tons at tn
 ports of Chir waiting to be shipped. Tn supplies of potash are exceedingly larg
 and the market is weak.
 It was voted by the meeting that
 fertilizer pool similar to that organize
 last year, should be organized this yea by the cooperative exchanges and tha Arthur Shedd should act as head buye
 for this pool.
 The question of seed potatoes was the
 brought up. There was considerable dis
 cussion in regard to the quality of see 7 bought last year, since two cars C Maine seed did not prove to be Al qua , ity They were bought from a man whol
 several of the men in this county SUI
 posed to be a reputable person to deal wit $ but apparently he was not careful in til kind of seed which he sold the co-opers
 tive exchanges. MT. Shedd reported ths several of the potato growers in thi l county accompanied by the crop specia r ist from the college and the county age1 made a trip to Vermont in August, an
 inspected a large number of potato fielt
 which were lately certified by the Stat | t said that they were especially impress l ed by the cars which Julian Dimoc of East Corinth is using on his 80 acrt . l of potatoes. No greater care could I used by any seed potato man to insUl e1 the quality of his goods, since four gir . trained in the knowledge of potato di : eases had been busy all summer in g { ing through the fields time and aga y and pulling out the diseased vines ar : any that did not appear as they shou
 in the test.
 : George Kahn said that as near as I K was able to estimate it would have bee j. good business if the men last spring ha = paid 75 cents more per bushel for the v seed potatoes, because it would ha' n brought them a return of at least $. | more for each bushel of seed so bougf X | The price of ordinary northern seed la n spring was around SIPS to $135 D : bushel, while Al certified seed W; around $2.2O. The sense of the meeti1 seemed to be that $250 to $500 D bushel was none too much to pay f II certified northern seed stock for the cor |; ing year if 1t was the right quality IT Il motion was made and carried that A thur Shedd act as head buyer for u ; seed potatoes to be handled by the diffe ;. ent exchanges this coming spring. u The question of other farm seed w
 then brought up. MT. Owens called a |. tention- to the fact that there was ~ excellent opportunity for such grol i: i: i: RHEIIMATIeN