Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1918 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

How $4 Worth of Fertilizer Turns to S4O Worth of Pork Here’s a proposition that often pays ten dollars for every dollar invested. It’s a way to convert fertilizer into hogs. Sounds curious—certainly does. But it’s true. Simply invest $4 per acre in Read Fertilizers to go on your corn. It often increases the yield 20 bushels per acre.: Those 20 bushels of corn if carefully fed to hogs will make 200 lbs. of pork —worth S4O to SSO. - It’s just plain “horse-sense” to convert cheap chemicals into high priced corn and hogs. It’s just plain foolishness, with corn bringing good prices, to let your crop starve and stunt for lack of nourishment. The farmer who keeps selling crops off ihis land, and who doesn’t use fertilizer is selling the birthright of his farm —its fertility. He’s selling the thing that creates land value. He’s selling his farm and doesn’t realize it. Remember there are tlhree elements that each crop takes away. Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid and Potash. All three must be replaced. The missing elements govern the size of the crop. For one element cannot take the place of another. It costs only a few cents more per acre to give the crop all three dishes of plant food Instead of only one. You get all three elements in The Read Fertilizers Nitrogen is supplied in many formas—available at different times to feed the crop from seed-time ’til harvest. Large quantities of tobacco stems are need—rich in Nitrogen and containing 6 pct. to 10 pct. Potash. Tobacco stems add organic matter, and are an insecticide that protects the plant roots from Insects. We can furnish goods containing as mitich as 5 pct. Potash. Thos. Reed, Agent Remington, Ind., R-3

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