FERTILIZERS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 361, 20 April 1889, Page 8

FERTILIZERS.

You find fanner?, say a practical wiiter, buying cheap feitilizers, there hy expecting results, but they aie disappointed. r lhe best is the cheapen. They also neglect to inakp u Q e of the manures which c?m be pioperly made by applying elbow grease on their own farms. If plenty of giound plaster is used nisrlit, and morning 1 in the stables, and liquid manure collected in a well and not allowed to enrich the yards and road?, benefiting nobody, they cannot sa}' that it is an ill wind that blows no one any good, because in this case it is a downright watte. Farmers' manure piles, ia one sense, are their bank to chaw from, and to spread upon their field to pay to the soil what has been taken away by the different crops. When they buy fertilize! s it is like putting their note in bank foi discount. It must be all paid back with interest. Theiefore the more farmers or merchants can do without borrowing money, concentrating their power, tl.e richer and happier will they be. If farmers would keep a ca-»h account, and a profit and loss account, it would be greatly to their advantage. Too often they conduct thfir business in a very very careless and haphazard fashion so far as keeping accounts of income and expeniiituie goes.