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Appendix. 



HOPS. 



Relative proportions available plant- 

 food. Pounds per acre. ( 



Nitrogen 20 to 40 i 



I. 



Phosphoric acid 50 to 100- 



Potash 100 to 200 . 



( 



Pounds material for one acre. 

 120 to 240 nitrate of soda ; or 

 100 to 200 sulphate of ammonia ; or 



4,000 to 8,000 stable manure. 

 300 to 600 flsh guano ; or 

 400 to 800 acid phosphate ; or 

 125 to 250 double superphosphate ; or 

 500 to 1,000 ground bone. 

 200 to 400 muriate of potash ; or 

 200 to 400 sulphate of potash ; or 

 800 to 1,600 kainite; or 



2,000 to 4,000 wood ashes. 



Too much nitrogen may produce a rank growth of foliage at the expense of 

 the hops unless it is properly balanced with phosphoric acid and potash. Hops 

 are exceedingly heavy feeders of potash. Many hop vineyards are becoming less 

 productive and this is in part due to a decrease in the humus of the soil. If 

 some leguminous crop could be sown, as soon as the hops are picked, on a nar- 

 row strip between each two rows and then plowed under in the spring it would 

 add both humus and nitrogen to the soil and thus keep up the texture. 



HOKSE-RADISH. 



Relative proportions available plant- 

 food. Pounds per acre. 



Nitrogen 20 to 40 



Phosphoric acid 25 to 



Potash 50 to 1 00 •! 



Pounds material for one acre. 

 120 to 240 nitrate of soda ; or 

 100 to 200 sulphate of ammonia ; or 

 300 to 600 flsh guano ; or 

 4.000 to 8,000 stable manure. 

 200 to 400 acid phosphate : or 

 60 to 120 double superphosphate ; or 

 250 to 500 ground bone. 

 100 to 200 sulphate of potash ; or 

 100 to 200 muriate of potash ; or 

 400 to 800 kainite ; or 



I- 1,000 to 2,000 wood ashes. 



Kale. — Fertilizers same as for broccoli. 



LETTUCE. 



Relative proportions available plant- 

 food. Pounds per acre, f 



Nitrogen 35 to 



ro. . 



Phosphoric acid 50 to 100-' 



Potash 75 to ]\>''* 



I 



Pounds material for one acre. 

 210 to 420 nitrate of soda : or 

 175 to 350 sulphate of ammonia : or 

 525 to 1,050 fish guano ; or 



7,000 to 14,000 stable manure. 

 400 to 800 acid phosphate ; or 

 125 to 250 doublesuperuhosphate ;or 

 500 to 1,000 ground bone. 

 150 to 300 muriate of potash ; or 

 150 to 300 sulphate of potash ; or 

 600 to 1.200 kainite : or 



1,500 to 3,000 wood ashes. 



j^ucerne. (Alfalfa) — Fertilizers same as for alfalfa. 

 Mangel-Wurzcls. — Fertilizers same as for beets. 



CAUTION. — Question the soil tli or o uglily as suggrsted on page sijB before 

 adopting the wholesale use of fertilizers. Much money is unicisely spent in buying 

 and using commercial fertilizers. 



