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

 Plants phoric Acid, and Potash Withdrawn Per 



270 



Acre by an Average Crop. 



Continued. 



Name of Crop. 



Oats 



Onions 



Peas (pisuni sativum 



Poppy 



Potatoes 



Rape 



Rice 



Rye 



Seradella 



Soja bean 



Sugar cane 



Sorghum (sorghum saccharatum) 



Sugar beet (beet-ro. t) 



Tobacco 



Vetch (visia sativa) 



Wheat 



Potash. 



96 



96 



69 



87 



192 



124 



45 



76 



196 



87 



107 



561 



200 



148 



113 



58 



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. 



Amount 



Per Acre 



in Pounds. 



I- 



Sulphate of potash. . 

 Muriate of potash . . . 



Nitrate of Soda 



Sulphate of ammonia 



No fertilizer 



Stable manure 



Tobacco stems 



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 



