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ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE 



TABLE 6 

 FERTILIZING CONSTITUENTS IN 100 POUNDS OF VARIOUS SUBSTANCES 



Acid phosphate 12.0 



Alfalfa, green 76.0 



Alfalfa, hay 15.3 



Ammonium sulfate 4.0 



Apples 84.7 



Apple pomace 74.0 



Ashes, average .... 



Ash of evergreen trees 5.0 



Ash of hardwood trees 5.0 



Ashes, leached 30.2 



Barley 14.3 



Barley straw 14.2 



Beans 14 .5 



Bean straw 5.3 



Beet, mangel 91.9 



Beet, sugar 82.0 



Blood, dried 8.5 



Bone meal 13.0 



Brewers' grains, dry 9.5 



Brewers' grains, wet 76.2 



Buckwheat 14.1 



Buckwheat bran 15.6 



Buckwheat middlings 12.0 



Cabbage 85.6 



Carrots 87.0 



Clover (red), green 79.0 



Clover hay 17.0 



Corn, grain 13.0 



Corn fodder, with ears 42.2 



Corn fodder, green, with ears 82.8 



Corn stover 40.5 



Corn silage 77.9 



Corn cobs 10.7 



Cotton, lint .... 



Cotton, seed 10.3 



Cottonseed meal 8.8 



Gluten meal 8.6 



Guano, Peruvian 15.0 



Hominy feed 8.9 



Kainit 12.7 



Linseed meal 8.9 



Malt sprouts 12.0 



Milk, cows' 87.2 



Milk, skimmed 90.4 



Mixed hay 13.7 



Nitrate of potash 1 .9 



Nitrate of soda 1 .4 



Oat, grain 13.3 



' Oat straw 14.5 



Peas 14.0 



Pea-vine straw 13.6 



Potatoes 75.0 



Potassium, muriate of, 80 per cent. 1.1 



Potassium, sulfate of, 90 per cent . . 2.2 



Pumpkin 92.3 



Rice 12.4 



Rice hulls 8.2 



Water 



Nitrogen (N) 



.62 



1.76 



20.50 



.05 



.17 



1.39 



1.31 



4.08 



1.14 



.19 



.17 



13.50 



2.30 



2.51 



.62 



1.23 



1.18 



3.52 



.28 



.12 



.46 



1.08 



1.26 



.40 



.16 



.27 



.14 



.37 



.28 



3.07 



5.95 



4.12 



7.00 



1.20 



'4' .68 



2.97 



.53 



.56 



.99 



13.09 



15.7 



1.47 



.19 



2.68 



.68 



.14 



.11 

 1.08 



.58 



Phosphoric 

 acid (P 2 5 ) 



15.20 

 .15 

 .61 



".02 



.01 



1.53 



2.50 



3.50 



1.51 



.79 



0.3 



1.21 



.21 



.09 



.08 



1.35 



17.60 



1.61 



.42 



.69 



.42 



1.23 



.22 



.09 



.15 



.55 



.57 



.29 



.11 



.38 



.11 



.04 



.07 



1.02 



3.04 



.33 



14.00 



.98 



1.66 



1.74 



.19 



.20 



.41 



.28 

 .84 

 .35 

 .16 



.16 

 .18 

 .17 



