Food for Plants. 41 



time, it should be harrowed in ; if put on after planting, 

 it should be cultivated in. 



Should the Nitrate become hard, it can readily be pul- 

 verized with the back of a shovel, or with a mallet, or it 

 may be crushed on a barn floor by using a heavy post as 

 a roller. 



Formula for Cutton 



Nitrate alone 150 lbs. per acre 



or preferabl}' 



Nitrate 200' " " '' 



Acid Phosphate 200 '' " " 



When potash salts can conveniently be obtained we 

 advise the use of fifty pounds of sulphate of potash to 

 the acre every other year. 



W]mt Nitrate Has Done in the Flantera' Oivn Hands 



H. F. Lyle, Somerville, Ala. : 



" Plot with Nitrate produced 207 lbs. Cotton. Plot without Nitrate 

 produced 87 lbs. Cotton. 



" Nitrate plot did not shed off fruit in dry weather like the other 

 plot, — in fact, did not shed any. One-third larger stalk. Did not 

 have more than half stand on plots." 



B. F. White, Olive Branch, Louisiana: 



" Plot with Nitrate lU'oduced 90 lbs. Cotton. Plot without Nitrate 

 produced 36 lbs. Cotton. 



" The Nitrate of Soda Cotton matured before the Boll Weevil 

 affected it. I consider it the best I ever used, — ahead of any for 

 this climate." 



In Alabama the use of 126 pounds of Nitrate per acre 



for two successive seasons gave an average increased 



yield of 768 pounds of seed cotton per acre; or an 



increased yield of lint of 256 pounds per acre in addition 



to the seed yield of 512 pounds for the same area. 



When Nitrate of Soda is apphed 



earlv in the season to cotton, as it pre- 



Nitrate ferably should be, early maturity re- 



Gives Best suits." Too late applications of any 



Results nitrogenous fertilizer will delay its 



from Early , ^. , 



. y . maturitv. 



Application. j^ ^^^^ planter has been badly advised, 



and in consequence applies his nitro- 

 genous fertilizer too late, he should not blame the fer- 



