Plants 

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F Di d ,!?I gave 49.5 bushels barley per acre as compared to 37 

 bushels from 1,000 pounds cotton-seed meal applied 

 the previous year. Gain for Nitrate 33.7 per acre. 



Oats. 



This grain does well on nearly all types of soil, but 

 responds freely to good treatment. There is a vast 

 difference in the quality of oats when grown on poor or 

 rich soils. Perhaps no other crop so effectually conceals 

 impoverishment; at the same time the feeding value of 

 oats grown on poor soil is very low. In the North oats 



Oats. 



30 Bushels. 



Average product per acre, 

 for the U. S. of oats, with aver- 

 age farm fertilization. 



65 Bushels. 



The product of an acre of oats 

 fertilized with Nitrate of Soda. 



are sown in the spring, and usually after corn or a turned 

 down clover sod. In such cases the crop is rarely ever 

 given fertilizer, but shows an excellent return for a top- 

 dressing of 100 pounds of Nitrate of Soda per acre. 

 The crop has strong foraging powers, and will find avail- 

 able mineral plant food where a wheat crop would 

 utterly fail. On soils pretty badly exhausted, an 

 application of 400 pounds of fertilizer will yield a 

 profitable return, provided the top-dressing of Nitrate 



