Excerpt from Fertilizers: Where the Materials Come From Where to Get Them in the Cheapest Form, How to Compound Formulas, Etc;, Etc

This treatise is by a farmer for farmers. Using forty or fifty tons of commercial fertilizers on my own crops annually, I have been compelled to "book myself up," as the phrase is, - to learn the cheapest market in which to buy the elements, the best way to combine these, and the wisest way to apply them to the different crops of the farm. This treatise is the result of the study of various works on agricultural chemistry, especially the excellent reports that have been sent out from our agricultural stations by Professors. Johnson and Atwater, Goessmann, Dabney, Caldwell, and others, to whom our sense of indebtedness will be measured by the growth of our intelligence. This study, combined with personal observation and experience, makes up my little book. My treatise is not a work on barn manure: it is confined, for the most part, to fertilizers. It can perform no miracles: to ask that it shall show every one the road to success in the profitable raising of his crops would be as reasonable as was the search of the alchemist of old for the wonderful alembic that was to transmute every thing to gold.

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