MORE A. D. Co.
Another Christmastime arrival is an official publication from one of the best agricultural stations in the world—and the most attractive—near Ottawa. I mention it because it is wholly concerned with an answer that I owe to a dozen or more correspondents from three continents, who want to know all about Adco, a word made up of the initials of Agricul- tural Development Company, whose address is Harpenden, Herts., and who (being chiefly Lord Iveagh) give all profits over 5 per cent. to agricultural development. The little official publication quotes in full a description of the not yet christened Adco that I wrote six years ago after seeing the first field experiment at Rothamsted. But the discovery has now advanced a good deal further than the pamphlet suggests. The sacks of powder called Adco will convert almost any veget- able rubbish to a good rich manure without any biological addi- tions. The process is now purely chemical, for the reason that nature herself everywhere supplies the beneficent organisms which this nitrogenous powder so effectually feeds and stimu- lates. Beyond question the discovery is a solid addition to the wealth of the world. It is an agent of perpetual fertility.
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