Experiment by A. Beattie, Charlevoix, Mich. Fertilized with Nitrogen and 

 Phosphoric Acid. (See page 12.) 



complete fertilizer for beets and that the proper commercial 

 fertilizer is better than barnyard manure, because the manure 

 while producing in some cases somewhat better yields always 

 produced beets of such low sugar content and purity as to 

 make the amount of sugar per acre, and the money secured 

 from the crop, less with the manure than with the fertilizer. 

 In these experiments the equivalent of 500 pounds of 4-7-9 

 goods was compared with 20 loads of manure, the manure 

 containing over 5 times as much plant food as the fertilizer. 

 The Wisconsin Experiment Station in summing up the re- 

 sults of fertilizer tests states Rpt. 1905 "It will be noted 

 that there was a marked improvement both in the yield and 



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