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Acquaintance With Terms

Categories: COMMERCIAL SOURCES OF PLANT-FOOD

The hesitation of many users of commercial

fertilizer to master the few technical terms used in analyses of the

goods, for which over one hundred million dollars annually are expended

in this country, is to be deplored. The number of the materials

available for any large use as sources of plant-food in a commercial

fertilizer is small, and something of their characteristics should be

known. Every farmer should have a working knowledge of these

materials--their sources, the percentage of plant-food carried by them,

and their probable availability. He should know in a general way their

advantages and disadvantages in comparison with each other.



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