Show In SAVE MOtfEy FOR FARMERS Slaborate tests have boon made at Jny of the stations particularly In East and tho South In order to ermine the value of the worthless BS of soil fertilizers says tho Amer Illustrated Magazine W mIle tho of bacteria for Inoculation may Ilmately do away with all need of itillzatlon yet largo amounts are ll I spent upon commercial fertilizers it will probably be somo time be fce they shall bo all abandoned In jit something like 50000000 Is anally an-ally paid out by tho farmers of the fclted States for fertilizers It Is unquestionably true that much lud has been practiced upon tho I mers In this direction In Now Jor the station showed the farmers at by clubbing together and imrcbas tho raw material of which the fer zers arc composed they could save Jim 25 to 45 per cent Tho estimated wing In cost to tho farmers of tho pto by this ono feature alono Ism Is-m 75000 to 100000 per year This atlon has also demonstrated the eclal food needs of certain plants owing the farmer what particular type of fertilizer was needed for a given crop Instead of purchasing manures from Now York and Philadelphia for fertilizing fertil-izing sweet potato ground as had been tho custom the station advised a combination com-bination of various fertilizers as likely like-ly I to give the precise food the sweet potato needed to bring about tho most satisfactory results More than 20000 acres of ground in New Jersey are given up to the cultivation of the sweet potato and the cost of prodiic tlon haS thus been lessened by from tin annual 5 to 10 per acre making an saving of nearly or quite 200000 In this station as In many other stations the information given the farmers in the way of methods of preventing pre-venting Insect 11Ms < results in a saving sav-ing of thousands of dollars a year Without the aid of the stations orchards orch-ards and vegetable tracts as well indeed in-deed In somo cases entire field crop areas would hI destroyed It Is this constant searching for the negative advantages so to call them that functions marks one of the most significant tions of the stations |