THE FARM SCHEME 



1. Maize acid phosphate, 200 Ibs. 



2. Maize yard manure, 8 tons. 



3. Oats nothing. 



4. Wheat acid phosphate, 350 Ibs. 



muriate of potash, 100 Ibs. 



5. Clover and timothy nothing. 



6. Timothy nitrate of soda, 150 Ibs. 



acid phosphate, 150 Ibs. 

 muriate of potash, 50 Ibs. 



7. Timothy yard manure, 8 tons. 



Where there is plenty of yard manure, it 

 would be also applied to maize under No. 

 i, or the yard manure could be applied to 

 maize under No. i, and commercial ferti- 

 lizer applied to timothy under No. 6 could 

 be repeated under No. 7. If the land is 

 more or less depleted, an application of 200 

 pounds of acid phosphate to the oats would 

 be advisable. However, the purpose is 

 not to prescribe exact methods, but to point 

 out underlying principles and their possi- 

 ble application. 



As further illustration, it seems probable 

 that the practice of a market gardener in 

 using excessive amounts of stable manure 

 might, in some instances at least, be modi- 

 fied to good advantage by reducing the 

 amount of manure and increasing the 

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