A YEAR IN AGRICULTURE 



116 



I 1 /* acres, with farm manure only, ll*^ bushels per acre. 



l l /2 acres, with farm manure and one application of ground 



limestone, 15 bushels per acre. 



36 acres, with farm manure, two applications of ground 

 limestone and two of fine ground phosphate, in the rota- 

 tion as described above, 35!/2 bushels per acre. 



An Acre of Wheat 

 I* nd treated with 

 nanure. Limestone & 

 Phosphate 



FIG. 17. EXHIBIT SHOWING THE VALUE OF LIME AND 

 PHOSPHATE 



Here we have a yield of wheat about double that of the 

 average land of the state. The practical farmer will nat- 

 urally ask, "What did all this cost?" The average annual 



