Food for Xable Showing the Number of Pounds of Nitrogen, Phos- 

 ^^^"'^^ phoric Acid, and Potash Withdrawn Per Acre 



1 88 



by an Average Crop. 



CojJtinued. 



Name of Crop. 



Oats . 



Onions 



Peas (pisuni sativum) 



Poppy 



Potatoes 



Rape 



Rice 



Rye 



Seradella 



Soja bean 



Sugar cane. .' 



Sorghum (sorghum saccharatum) 



Sugar beet (beet-root) 



Tobacco 



Vetch (visia sativa) 



Wheat 



Nitrosen. 



89 

 96 



87 

 119 



154 



39 



87 

 128 



297' 



518 



446 



95 

 127 

 149 

 III 



Phosphoric 

 Acid. 



Potash. 



Fertilizer Experiments on Meadow Land. 



(Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, No. 23, 



February, 1890.) 



On low and decidedly wet land: 



English Blue Grass. 



Fertilizers Used Per Acre. 



Sulphate of potash. . . 

 Muriate of potash. . . 



Nitrate of Soda 



Sulphate of ammonia 



No fertilizer 



Stable manure 



Tobacco stems 



Amount 



Per Acre 



in Pounds. 



160 

 160 

 160 

 130 



20 loads. 

 4,000 



Yield of 

 Hay in 

 Pounds 



Per Acre. 



3,000 

 2,950 

 3,100 

 3,600 

 2,850 

 2,970 

 4,700 



