Show WHAT WHAI CHILDREN CHI DREN KNO 16 A chilean priest was appealed to drive the evil spirit from a region where indiana reported that their fires tan ran along the ground he took home some of the in mysterious rock and piled it in his garden de 11 and a lew few days later he noticed an extraordinary development in the plants which happened to be near the piles the priest showed the indian his experiments and they came to regard the sub stance as anything but an evil spirit but instead a gift ot of providence for increasing the productivity ot of the soil roil in t the he great desert ot of northern chile lies an area of over miles in length that has supplied the world the most effective means mcana of increasing productivity known in all history the evil spirit of indian discovery has become the keystone to the aid of chilean prosperity and this key industry brings chile its greatest revenue your dictionary will tell you that the we d nitrate signifies a salt ot of nitric acid old W 40 W chemists will inform you that they use it in the manufacture of glass explosives steel fusing mixtures nitric acid nitrate of potash arsenate of soda the purification of caustic sods soda tor for making chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powders etc the winners of prizes for growing the largest chops ot of cotton in the southern states and marvelous results in the corn growing states know nitrate of soda as arst farst among nitrogenous fertilizers placed on the soil it Is readily absorbed by growing plants and it penetrates them enera from tips to roots strengthening the plants and soll soli and alding aiding to prevent disease and insect pests |