Show LEAVES LEAVES' I Ij AUTUMN LEAVES j ARE MARKETED FOR FERTILIZER By Special News Service HARRISBURG Pa Dec 1 Dead I.-Dead Dead leaves that are swept into the street carted out of parks and kicked to bits everywhere are valued at 1040 10 40 a ton according to prevailing prices for fertilizers fer fer- fer- fer This price is put u upon on them by Prof Franklin Menges farm adviser adI ad ad- I IThe IThe The composition of the leaves of different species of ti trees ees varies he says but pounds of leaves as they fall from the trees at this time partly dry contain 60 per cent water 9 per percent percent percent cent nitrogen 2 per cent phosphoric acid 4 per cent potassium and about 2 per cent lime A ton of leaves will contain eighteen pounds of nitrogen four pounds of phosphorus eight pounds of potassium and about forty pounds of lime i The nitrogen valuing it at 40 cents a pound would b bo be worth and the potassium at the same rate would be worth Leaving the value of the phosphorus the lime and the organic matter out of consideration a It ton of leaves would be worth at the abnormal prices now now prevailing 10 1040 40 |