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We recommend for tobacco a mixture of 200 Jg*J» 

 pounds Nitrate of Soda, 300 pounds superphosphate, 

 and 200 pounds sulphate of potash per acre. This 

 mixture would cost about $28.00 per ton and would 

 contain over 6 per cent, of Nitrogen. This is nearly 

 twice as much Nitrogen as would be obtained in a 

 "complete fertilizer" or "special tobacco manure," 

 costing $35.00 per ton. 



Grass Growing for Profit. 



Timothy and related grasses feed heavily on 

 Nitrogen; they are able to transform it completely 

 into wholesome and digestible animal food. When 

 full rations of plant food are present a good crop of 

 grass will remove upwards of the equivalent of the 

 active fertilizer ingredients of 200 pounds of Nitrate 

 of Soda, 200 pounds muriate of potash and 200 pounds 

 of phosphate. These amounts are recommended to be 

 applied per acre as top-dressing for grass lands; and 

 if wood ashes are available 400 pounds per acre will 

 be very beneficial in addition to the above. Grass 

 lands get sour easily, especially when old, and when 

 they do, one ton of lime per acre should be harrowed 

 in before seeding down anew. The seeding must be 

 done before September, and the above-mentioned 

 ration should be used as a top-dressing the following 

 spring, soon after the grass begins to show growth. 



If all the conditions are favorable from three to 

 five tons of clean barn-cured hay, free from weeds, 

 may reasonably be expected. When grass crops are 

 heavy and run as high as 4}^ tons per acre field-cured, 

 it is safe to allow 20 per cent, shrinkage in weight for 

 seasoning and drying down to a barn-cured basis. 

 Nitrate of Soda, the chief constituent of the prescribed 

 ration, pushes the grass early and enables it to get 

 ahead of all weeds, and the crop then feeds econom- 

 ically and fully on the other manurial constituents 



