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MISCELLANEOUS FARM SUBJECTS 



Quantity and Composition of Fertilizer Mixtures Suggested for Fall 

 and Spring Applications to Each Acre of Oats Grown on Various 

 Kinds of Soil. 



Results point conclusively to the fact that cowpeas may be 

 made to take the place of cottonseed meal in a fertilizer for corn 

 and there has been very little difference in the yields of corn receiv- 

 ing an application of nitrogen and phosphorus, whether these two 

 elements were supplied by cowpeas and acid phosphate, animal 

 manures and acid phosphate, cottonseed meal and acid phosphate, 

 or raw ground bone furnishing the same quantities of the two ele- 

 ments. Crops like oats, wheat, and rj r e, growing in winter and 



