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Food for Plants. 



The results sliow very clearly the value of the Nitrate 

 applications. 



Instructions for Using Nitrate of Soda on Onions. 



As soon as the onions are up in the spring, or before 

 seeding, apply the Nitrate of Soda by broadcasting it 

 evenly, by hand or by machine, over the entire surface 

 of the onion field you are fertilizing, at the rate of 200 

 ))ounds ])er acre. 



Our Formula for Onions. 



Nitrate alone 200 lbs. per acre 



or preferably 



Nitrate * 300 " " " 



Ac-id Phosphate 300 " " " 



When potash salts can be conveniently obtained we 

 advise the use of fifty pounds of sulphate of potash to 

 the acre everv other vear. 



300 lbs Nitrate of Soda 

 to acre. 



No Nitrate 



