290 



Bureau of Farmers' Institutes. 



Same as for alfalfa. 



Glover. 

 Com. 



Per Pounds for Pounds of different materials for one 

 cent. one acre. acre. 



Nitrogen. 



Available phosphoric acid . 

 Potash 



2 10 to 20 50 to 100 pounds dried blood; 75 

 to 150 pounds cotton seed meal or 

 ground fish. 



7 35 to 70 250 to 500 pounds dissolved rock. 



6 30 to GO 60 to 120 pounds muriate of pot- 

 ash. 



Suggestions. — Corn is a vigorous feeder. It can follow a clover 

 crop with advantage. It is not injured, like many grain crops, by 

 heavy applications of stable manure; but, when fertilized by stable 

 manure, phosphoric acid should be applied also. Corn usually 

 leaves .soils in good physical condition for following crops. Phos- 

 phoric acid appears in practice to be of special value in growing 

 corn. 



The application given above is intended for corn grown as a 

 field crop for the grain. When corn is grown as a forage crop, 

 double the amount of nitrogen given above may be used. When 

 corn is grown for silage, the following mixture may be applied : 

 One Inn id red and fifty pounds of dried blood, 200 pounds of cot- 

 ton seed meal or ground fish, 350 pounds of dissolved rock and 100 

 pounds of muriate of potash. 



For sweet com, a different object is sought. A green and suc- 

 culent crop, in place of a matured one, is desired, and earliness is 

 usually a special object. The following mixture is suggested for 

 sweet corn: Seventy-five pounds nitrate of soda, 100 pounds of 

 dried blood, 100 pounds of cotton seed meal, 400 pounds of dis- 

 solved rock and 150 pounds of muriate of potash. 



