Show SAVE FOR FARMERS elaborate tests have been made at many of the stations particularly in the east and the south in order to determine the value of the worthless ness of soil fertilizers sas the ican illustrated magazine while the use of bacteria for inoculation may ultimately do away with all need of fertilization et large amounts are still upon commercial fertilizers and it aull probably be some time i rt fore the shall be all abandoned in fact something like 50 is an n lally paid by the farmers of the united states for fertilizers it is unquestionably true that much fraud hab been practiced upon the farmers in this direction in new jer aey the station showed the farmers that by clubbing together and ing the raw material of which the ter are composed they could save from 25 to 45 per cent the estimated saving in cost to the farmers of the state by this one feature alone is from 75 to per year this station has also demonstrated the special food needs of certain plants stowing the farmer what particular type of fertilizer was needed for a given crop instead of purchasing manures from new york and philadelphia for ferell izing sweet potato ground as had been the iscom the station advised a corn of var oua fertilizers as ake 1 to give the precise food the sweet potato needed to bring about the most satisfactory results more than 20 of ground in new jersey are agnen up to the cultivation of the sweet potato and the cost of prodoc tion has thus been lessened by from 5 to 10 per acre making an annual saving of nearly or quite in this station as in many other stations the information given the farmers in the f ay of methods of pre venting insect pests results in a sav ing of thousands of dollars a ear without the aid of the stations ards and vegetable tracts as well in deed in some cases entire field crop areas would be destroyed it is this constant searching tor the negative advantages so to call them that marks one of the most sign alcant functions of the stations |