FARMER AN D PLANTER.
THE FERTILIZER LAWS.
Tl»e Farmer At the Mercy of the
Stanufnctnrer and Compelled to
l*uy Tribute to Him.
We desire to call attention to the
situation as shown in Col. Peek’s
communication in a recent issue.
The Georg ia law,as interpreted by the
attorney general, forbids any one
selling fertilizers to farmers in bulk.
This simply means that a farmer can
only buy fertilizers in sacks from
manufacturers. But the manufac
turers can buy in bulk. That means
that the consumer can not buy with
out paying the manufacturer for
sacking, mixing, inspection and han
dling.
—* /,p! ’Ttplaces the farmer at the mercy
of the manufacturer, and comples
him to pay tribute to him.
This is an iniquitous law. It pre
vents the farmer from buying the
material in bulk and doing his own
l mixing. It compels him to pay sev
* eral dollars extra for each ton of fer
tilizers he uses. The farmers of Geor
gia use about 400,000 tons annually.
On this they pay at least four dollars
per ton more than it would cost them
if they bought the material and
mixed for themselves. This is $1,600,
000 each year that the farmers are
forced to pay the manufacturers.
This is an outrageous and enor
mous tax. Farmers, can you afford
to submit to it? Will you submit to
It?
Rather than do s©, you had better
not use fertilizers at all.
The law has been upon the statute
books for many years, but was con
strued to mean that the farmer could
buy the material for his own use if
he did not wish to sell again. Under
that construction they were permit
ted to buy and mix.
But now the Virginia and Carolina
Chemical Co., having secured control
of the Carolina phosphate, refuses to
Bell to the farmers in bulk, and force
them to buy their manufactured
goods at higher prices.
They claim that the law will not
permit them to sell to the farmer.
The attorney general sustains their
claim.
So the poor farmer, who uses all
the fertilizers, finds himself at the
mercy of this one company. Tied
hand and foot, he must tamely sub
mit to be robbed.
There is no secret value in ma
chine-mixed fertilizers. Experience
shows that any farmer can mix his
own to better advantage with a
; Bhovel and a lioe. It is not the mix
ing, saekingior tagging that gives
^ _____ ^^2©-tr>'^<Vrnl!zers. That value de
"* pends entirely up the quantity and
quality of soluble plant food which
they contain.
The farmer can get the same bene
fit from their use without mixing
them at all. He can put in his cot
ton-seed meal and get the same re
sults. The mixing only saves time
and labor in distribution.
We say the time has come when
farmers imist either buy the material
and do their own mixing or use less
fertilizers. They can not stand the
enormous cost they have been paying.
It now requires about four hun
dred pounds of these ready-mixed
goods to make a good crop where two
hundred pounds used to be enough.
XI is lime iur a reueiuuu ui u hunvc
or a boycot. We are opposed in prin
ciple to all of these, but sometimes
nothing else will do.
Demand of your several legisla
tures to change the law so as to give
you a chance to purchase the raw
material in open market at the same
terms as any one else.
If a man is a manufacturer he can
buy at a cheap price; if he is a farmer
he must buy at a higher price.
This we call class legislation of the
rankest kind. This is protecting the
wrong party. A great trust or cor
poration, the Virgina & Carolina
•^4 Chemical Co., for instance, can buy
»t the original market and the low
est price, but the farmer can not.
Any little factory that will set up
a grinder and brand the sacks, can
buy at the lowest figures, but the
farmer can not.
Better do away with the whole
business of state inspection than
protect the farmer in any such way.
The Virginia & Carolina Chemical Co.
is now entire master of the whole
situation.—Southern Cultivator.
^ SAVING OF FARM MANURES.
How to Save and Utilize the Escap
ing (>iiHva From the llurn
yard Manure Pile.
- Within the last year there has
come more forcibly than ever to my
attention one point about the saving
of farm manures that I think should
be well understood by every farmer.
I have long known that there is a
waste of nitrogen about almost every
stable. The bad odors—are. tell-tale
evidence of this fact. It is nitrogen
escaping into the air that causes the
most of the foul smells that pollute
the air about our premises, and this
one of the Tery ingredients that
I
we ought to preserve. When it gets
into the air it is gone beyond our
reach. How to prevent these un
wholesome and offensive, and, at the
same time, valuable gases from es
caping is the point which I wish to
make plain. It is easy enough and
should not be omitted by any pro
gressive farmer.
It is done by using absorbents. We
know that there are various things
that have chemical affinity for eacli
other, and it is by properly using
this idea and that of the mechanical
affinity of substances, as well, that
we should accomplish this end. There
are two principal materials that we
should use, and both are easily ob
tained and worth all they cost aside
from their absorbent qualities.
The first is kaiait. It contains
about 12 Yi per cent, of potash in an
available form for plant food. In ad
dition it contains chlorine and other
substances, that, when brought in
contact with the nitrogenous matter
in the stalls and gutters where farm
animals are kept, unite and
form compounds that are at once
practically scentless and in the best
possible forms to be retained and be
come an important part of the farm
supply of manure. About one quart
per day for each animal is about
what should be used.
The other is commonly known as
acid phosphate. This is the product
that is made by grinding and then
treating with sulphuric acid the
phosphate rock that is mined in cer
tain places in South Carolina, Flori
da.Tennessee and Canada. It contains
not far from 14 per cent, of phos
phone acid, and the rest is largely
sulphate of lime, which is also called
gypsum, and when ground is known
as land plaster and is bought and ap
plied to land because of the chemical
effect it has upon other elements,
causing them to become available
plant foods. Now, when this dis
solved phosphate rock is sprinkled
about the animals, it too absorbs the
nitrogen, somewhat the same as does
the kainit, purifying the stables and
making a most excellent manure out
of what would otherwise have been
largely a waste and also a nuisance
If one quart is used for each horse
or cow each day, it will be found
about right.
If these simple things are done on
any farm, they will prove about the
most profitable ways to get these
highly useful plant foods, potash and
phosphoric acid, into the soil. They
will be mixed with the farm manures
and balance them up materially; for
they are both needed to reinforce
materials that are often quite want
ing in both potash and phosphoric
acid. The absorbents are badly need
ed and the benefits from this point
alone are often worth all they cost.
There is a double gain, and those
who do not use one or both of them
are making a mistake. Of the two,
there is a better effect from the use
of kainit.—E. H. Van Deman, in Far
mers’ Home Journal.
No Dnoner of Overproduction.
There is very little danger of over
production of farm crops this year
for the general scarcity that exists
will made a demand that can only be
fully met by full crops of everything
People and domestic animals are sub
sisting on short rations, and that is
good for the Jppetite, so that wher
production and the demand for prod
nets meet on a normal basis more
will be consumed. Therefore let us
tickle the soil and make it. smile wit!
gladness and laugh with abundance
—Farm and 11anch.
HERE AND THERE.
—Do not allow the cows to drinl
stagnant or impure water. It wil
not only affect the quality of tht
milk, but will injure the health of th<
animal.
—Vicious animals should never be
used for breeding, because “like pro
duces like” in temper, character am
habit, as well as in size, color anc
conformation.
—A cruel custom, but a profitable
one, is to set two hens, and whei
they hatch, give all the chicks to qne
and give the other fresh eggs, and 2
days more of confinement. Anything
but a fool hen would rebel.
-—Ducks are the choicest of all ta
ble fowls, and it is not necessary tha
they be canvass-back, or be flankee
with green-seal. Pekin, Rouen, Ayles
bury, Cayuga, or even wild ducks, ar<
each better than the others.
—Any good wholesome food, in suf
ficient variety, is egg-food. The vari
ety should embrace grain, green vege
table and animal matter. Crushe<
peas or beans may replace the anima
matter if cheaper or more conven
ient.
—For a farmer to shorten up or
any crop because prices are low ii
often bad policy. So many do so tha
next season prices are likely to b<
high. Before deciding on crops th<
farmer should do some solid, dee]
thinking.
—Grain farming as an exclusivi
business does not pay the farmer whi
owns the land,” for every year hi
makes a heavy demand upon it fo
the wealth which nature has provide!
and which must be there if inaximun
crops are to be growrv
Mrs. Mamie Herbert, 56 Elmwood Ave.,
Buffalo, N. Y., Treasurer Empire State
Fortnightly, Buffalo, N. Y., After Eight
Years’ Suffering Cured by Lydia E. Pink
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M /^jjjjjr large quantities of
Mg Potash.
. The fertilizer ap
fijakX.plied, must furnish
enough Potashr-jOr the
* IrLX land will lose its pro
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