Show 1107 to grow ormy onions on my farm far in I 1 keep a heavy stock 0 of pigs and nd shy sheep and make a largo large quantity u entity of rich ric manure by this I 1 mean that tho the pigs and slice sheep P are fed 0 on I 1 i malt sprouts and other food particularly rich in nitrogen and potash notwithstanding this fact I 1 find great advantage from using in addition to the farm manure a liberal dress ing in of and nitrate 01 of soda oda i I 1 am not a business busi nesa mail or I 1 should probably keep these facts to myself and let co so whom I 1 hava have in ray my mind go on floundering in their ignorance norance and prejudice it wound would serve them right they think they know all about manures when in fact fad t they know nothing no lhing they put on commercial manures costing c one hundred dollars per acre e when they could get the same effect for lesa less than half the money market gardeners sow from one ond to two tons of commercial manure per acre costing fifty dollars per ton they think that it pays I 1 do not deny it I 1 only claim that they are working in in the dark it might have paid the chinaman Ohi naman to set et fire to the sty when ho wanted roasted pig but we have di covered cheaper erand and better methods ot of preparing food for the table and we have discovered cheaper methods of our land than applying one hundred dollars worth of c commercial om manure per acre try thia this experiment the coming spring get two tons of blood and bone fertile fertil izer costing one hundred dollars so sow it broad broadcast dast on an aero acre of land prepared for onions ou on an adjoining acre BOW sow at tho the same time ibs lbs at li 1 cents per ib lb GOO ibs lbs nitrate of soda at 2 cents per ib 1500 d 2200 if it docs does not produce as grea great t a growth of onions as the two tons of raw bane manure I 1 am greatly mis taken on oil in my y own farm the nitrate two or three times during the growth of the onions I 1 never saw a finer growth of onions than we had last year and pros pro deuced in the above way there was not one scallion ionin in a hundred thousand american agriculturist for january |