. Meat, milk and money, how to produce the latter by increasing the former . cles of commerce. Art. 421. If we follow the plan adopted bysome Eastern Stations of placing the same valueson nitroeen, phosphoric acid and potash in feed-ing stuffs that these constituents bring when soldin commercial fertilizers, we are in a position tocompare the fertilizing values of the several feedstuffs. Wheat bran and corn are compared in thetable below: VALUE OF THE FERTILIZING CONSTITUENTS IN 1,000 POUNDSOF WHEAT BEAN AND CORN. Valuation ofFertilizerconstituents inFeeding Stuffs Wheat Bran Corn Constituents
. Meat, milk and money, how to produce the latter by increasing the former . cles of commerce. Art. 421. If we follow the plan adopted bysome Eastern Stations of placing the same valueson nitroeen, phosphoric acid and potash in feed-ing stuffs that these constituents bring when soldin commercial fertilizers, we are in a position tocompare the fertilizing values of the several feedstuffs. Wheat bran and corn are compared in thetable below: VALUE OF THE FERTILIZING CONSTITUENTS IN 1,000 POUNDSOF WHEAT BEAN AND CORN. Valuation ofFertilizerconstituents inFeeding Stuffs Wheat Bran Corn Constituents aoo o m -a§ CD Nitrogen 7 Dols. .72 187 4 7 Ptiospboric Acid .49 .18 Total From the above we learn that the value of thefertilizing constituents in i,ooo pounds of bran is$, and in the same weight of corn one-half asmuch, or $ By dojbling these figures we havethe following;Value of fertilizing constituents in i ton of wheat bran $1348 Value of fertilizing constituents in i ton of corn ••.. Value of Farm Manure per ton Art. 422. The farmer will ask if it is here taughtthat he can get returns of $ by the applicationof one ton of bran to his land as a fertilizer. Sucha deduction is not the purpose of these mean, however, that a ton of bran containsnitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash in such amountthat if bought in the form of commercial fertilizersthey ?would cost at least the sum named. Theymean that the farmer Avho harvests a ton of cornand seeks to return to the field the same amountof fertility that was abstracted bj^ this crop mustpay not less than $ for the requisite fertilizersif bought in the market. Virgin soil as a rule con-tains a large amount of available fertility, and pioneerfarmers, drawing upon Natures store, give littleconsideration to the subject. The Western farmercultivating prairie lands^ when marketing corn con-siders that in so doing he is selling labo
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