. The business of farming . green manuring crops,aids much in soil building and fertility mainten-ance. Potash and nitrate of soda are also valuableaids. COMMEECIAl, FEETILIZEES. The marketing and use of commercial fertilizershave risen to an immense volume in the businessof farming. While all sections of our country areusing it, yet some sections use it in immense quan-tities. It is a subject that requires the most care-ful consideration. If it is a valuable aid to thebusiness of farming, then the fact should be uni-versally known that the soil may receive more ofits benefits. But if there is
. The business of farming . green manuring crops,aids much in soil building and fertility mainten-ance. Potash and nitrate of soda are also valuableaids. COMMEECIAl, FEETILIZEES. The marketing and use of commercial fertilizershave risen to an immense volume in the businessof farming. While all sections of our country areusing it, yet some sections use it in immense quan-tities. It is a subject that requires the most care-ful consideration. If it is a valuable aid to thebusiness of farming, then the fact should be uni-versally known that the soil may receive more ofits benefits. But if there is no merit in its use,certainly those who are engaged in the business offarming ought to know it, that the great waste ofits use be stayed. We have tried to consider this subject free frombias or prejudice. We do not deal directly or in-directly in any article of trade or commerce pro-posed as a substitute for commercial have done much experimenting with it, andhave studied everything upon the subject we could. rt u « ? «+-. Jr to O O oj .2 M u l-H > w o 1-1w H S3 3 — 1- fe s ii ° c e 0. >< (U DO ?4- __ ?i = o n G O Q, O »- ^ oj 1- lU T-i 1- tn -t-i ^« K .-tl rt 3 nJ -o ba o o . n) o w .ii ? >, o. 3 -O (Uo bo H ^ W 5 fc ^ E o bo en C > ? o e s s <U 1) iH Jj M^ J= ^ «S OTHEE AIDS TO FAEMING 167 lay our hands upon, and so from an unbiasedstandpoint have reached the following conclusions. Too many brands of commercial fertilizers con-tain as their chief constituent a filler of no fertiliz-ing value whatever. As an illustration, peattaken from swamps is largely used as a is simply rotten vegetation or organic matterunmixed with soil minerals which has reached thatstage where it is dead organic matter. It is de-void of bacterial life. It has been arrested in itsstages of decomposition before it was worked upinto humus. If the vegetation of which it is en-tirely composed had been mixed with soil mineralsat the time or immediately af
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