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The
Home
Mixin
of
Fertilizers
l.ISHED
BY
WILLIAM
25
S.
1
D.Sc.,
F.C.S.,
Director
an
Nitrate
Propaganda
Jersey
State
Agricultural
College
Late
of
New
MADISON
AVENUE,
NEW
YORK
Reprinted
from
Farmers'
Digest
THE
HOME
MIXING
OF
FERTILIZERS
AND
STRAIGHT
FERTILIZER
FORMULAS
PUBLISHED
BY
WILLIAM
25
S.
MYERS,
D.
Sc.,
F.C.S.,
Director
Chilean
Nitrate
Propaganda
Late
of
New
Jersey
State
Agricultural
College
MADISON
AVENUE,
NEW
YORK
Reprinted
from
Farmers'
Digest
Results
from
Use
of
Home
Mixed
Fertilizers
on
Wheat
and
on
Rye.
Wheat
14
Bushels.
Wheat
37
Bushels.
Average
Product
per
acre
for
the
U.
S. of
Wheat
with
Average
Farm
Fertilization
The
Product
of
an
acre
of
Wheat
Fertilized
with
Nitrate
of
Soda,
Home
1910.
Mixed
with
Phosphates
and
Potash
1910.
Rye
18
Bushels.
tilized
Rye
The
Product
36
Bushels.
Average
Product
per
acre
for
the
U.
S.
of
Rye
with
average
Farm
Fertil-
of
an
acre
of
Rye
Fer-
with
Nitrate
of
Soda,
Home
History
of
in
Home
Mixing
of
Fertilizers
in
England
and
Europe
figures
published
by
the
United
States
Department
of
Agriculture
not
long
since,
showing
the
average
yields
per
acre
of
wheat,
oats
and
barley
in
the
United
States
and
in
comparison
with
those
of
Germany,
disclosed
an
extraordinary
and
The
very
interesting
humiliating
condition
here
in
America.
The
average
yields
of
wheat,
oats
and
barley
in
period,
is
28.4
bushels
per
acre
for
wheat;
47.3
bushels
for
oats;
and
34.4
bushels
for
barley.
Germany,
covering
a
recent
ten
year
States
shows
an
average
yield
for
the
same
period
of
14
bushels
per
acre
for
wheat;
30
bushels
for
oats;
and
26
bushels
for
barley
per
acre,
in
round
The
United
numbers.
In
view
of
our
those
of
soils
being
so
much
newer
than
in
use
for
Germany,
and
having
been
com-
paratively
few
years,
the
early
soil
exhaustion
of
our
lands
compared
with
the
splendid
returns
obtained
in
Germany,
makes
the
comparison
a
very
mortifying
one
for
our
American
farmers.
one
looks
at
the
history
of
the
fertilizer
busi-
ness
in
this
country,
one
may
perceive
some
possible
causes
to
account
for
these
striking
differences.
The
rational
use
of
fertilizers
has
obtained
in
Germany
from
the
time
commercial
fertilizers
began
to
be
used;
that
is
to
say,
German
farmers
have
always
known
Nitrate
of
Soda,
acid
phosphate
and
potash
salts
by
their
proper
scientific
names
and
their
uses,
because
the
Experiment
Stations
in
Germany
were
organized
in
advance
of
the
commercial
fertilizer
industry,
and
If
Home
Mixing
of
Fertilizers
from
the
very
beginning
the
nature,
composition
and
precise
scientific
use
of
them.
taught
the
farmers
the
other
hand,
here
in
America,
our
Experi-
ment
Stations
were
not
established
until
a
false
and
irrational
use
of
fertilizers
had
become
firmly
rooted
among
our
farmers
and
planters;
and
even
yet
com-
paratively
few
of
our
American
farmers
know
any-
thing
about
the
real
nature
of
the
several
hundred
compounds
which
are
foisted
upon
them
every
year
by
fertilizer
mixers.
The
constituents
of
these
numer-
ous
compounds
may
comprise
a
group
of
certain
chemi-
cals this
year,
and
a
group
of
wholly
different
ones
next
year;
and,
as
a
rule,
the
printed
matter
in
fertilizer
manufacturers'
booklets
and
on
the
fertilizer
bags
does
not
disclose
anything
whatever
of
the
real
nature
and
character
or
composition
of
the
constituents
of
the
contained
fertilizers.
On
We
effective.
have
pure
food
laws
which
are
now
fairly
laws
curiously,
however,
are
most
defective
in
that
they
do
not
show
anything
as
to
the
percentage
of
available
Nitrogen
although
they
may
occasionally
show
the
percentage
of
available
phosphoric
acid
and
of
available
potash.
The
really
important
element
in
the
fertilizer,
both
from
a
com-
mercial
as
well
as
an
agricultural
food
producing
fertilizer
;
Our
standpoint,
is
its
Nitrogen.
Since
the
cheaper
forms
of
Nitrogen
are
but
im-
perfectly
available,
and,
in
fact,
sometimes
scarcely
available
at
all,
and
command
in
the
open
market
several
times
the
value
of
the
best
and
most
available
forms
of
phosphoric
acid
and
potash,
our
Experiment
Stations
would
do
an
additional
excellent
work by
pre-
scribing
an
official
analytical
method
for
available
Nitrogen
fertilizers.
We
sincerely
hope
that
they
will
continue
to
advocate
Home
Mixing
and
the
use
of
straight
fertilizers.
are
used,
involving
a
high
cost
of
freight
on
the
filler
material
which
the
farmer
must
pay,
and
as
long
as
the
most
inferior
and
as
valueless
fillers
As
long

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