218 Fertilisers [pt. iii, ch. xii 



Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany used more arti- 

 ficial manures than we did, their consumption being: 



Amounts of fertiliser used in cwts. per acre 



Great 

 Belgium Luxemburg Germany Britain 



Phosphatio MO 1-36 0-66 0-6 



Potassic 0-16 0-21 0-50 007 



Nitrogen 0-55 0-07 0-18 0-10 



Total artificial fertiliser 2-18* 1-64 1-34 0-771 



' 0-9 according to other estimates. 

 * Including compound manures 0-37. 



The potassic fertiUser is reckoned as containing 25 per cent. KjO. 



Another estimate for British and German consumption closely agreeing 

 with the above is given in T. H. Middleton's German Agriculture (Cd. 

 8305), p. 36, where the phosphatic and nitrogen fertiUsers are calculated 

 as 30 per cent, superphosphate and sulphate of ammonia respectively. 



This table, however, takes no account of the large 

 quantities of farmyard manure produced by the use of 

 feeding cakes imported from other countries, which in 

 our case are very large. 



