MONEY IN FERTILIZERS.
Wanted, a New Fertilizer--How “Golden” Forests Drop Gold--Why the
Fields Near Berlin are so Productive--How We Lose $5,000,000 a
Year--The Peat Treasures of New Jersey--Fortunes in
Phosphates--Millions of Fish on Land as well as in the
Sea--$1,000,000 for Him Who will Pick It Up.
We are yet in the infancy of this important product. The desideratum is
a fertilizer that will do the best work in the least bulk. The 4,565,000
farmers and vegetable growers of the United States will make
independently rich the man who can produce a good fertilizer at small
cost of transportation. The field of chemistry is particularly rich in
suggestions; experiments in this line are constantly going on, and there
is reason to hope that an agricultural Edison will soon arise.
Meanwhile, there is money in the following fertilizers: