New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 99 



Beans. 



Per cent. 



Pounds for 

 one acre. 



Pounds of different materials for one acre. 



Nitiooren 



Available pbos- 

 phoiic acid. .. 



Potash 



5 to 10 



30 to 60 



35 to 70 



30 to 60 lbs. nitrate of soda ; or 

 25 to ."0 lbs. sulphate of ammonia ; or 

 50 to 100 lbs. dried blood ; or 

 1,000 to 2,000 lbs. stable manure. 

 300 to 6110 lbs. bone meal ; or 

 200 to 400 lbs. dissolved bone or 

 bone black ; or 

 250 to 500 lbs. dissolved rock. 

 70 to 140 Iba. muriate ; or 

 70 to 140 lbs. sulphate ; or 

 300 to 600 lbs. kaiuit; or 

 700 to 1,400 lbs. wood ashes. 



Suggestions. — The formula given above applies to beans grown 

 for the seeds. When beans are grown to be eaten green, as for 

 string-beans, three or fonr times as much nitrogen should be applied 

 as for example 100 to 200 pounds of nitrate of soda for one acre; 

 this is applied preferably in three or four portions at different times 

 rather than all at once. The extra application of nitrogen will 

 develop the foliage and pods and retard ripening. 



Beets. 



Suggestions. — When beets are grown for sugar, potash is preferably 

 used in the form of sulphate. In growing beets for garden or feed- 

 ing purposes. 



somewhat less nitrogen can be used. 



