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Quick Yield 

 Procured by 

 Nitrate. 



Radishes. 



The ground in wliicli radishes were 

 l)hinted was newly Inrned timothy sod, 

 not fertilized for ten years. Seed was 

 drilled in April 12th. Nitrate of Soda, 

 75 pounds to the acre, was applied April 

 20th, followT^d by an ai)plication of 150 pounds a week 

 later. Radishes on the nitrated ])h)t matured evenly and 

 were marketed on May 15th at hve cents a bunch retail, 

 the wholesale price rang-ing,- from $2 to $2.50 per hundred. 

 The radishes on the non-nitrated plot matured unevenly 

 and when readv the market was glutted. 



Late Spinach. 



The ground used for this experiment, though under 

 cultivation for generations, had never been fertilized. 

 Nitrate of Soda at the rate of 350 pounds to the acre 

 w^as used in two applications. The photograph of the 

 product of an equal space of row^ from the nitrated and 

 non-nitrated plots tells the result. 



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350 lbs. Nitrate of Soda to the acre 

 in two applications. 



No 

 Nitrate. 



Early Tomatoes. 



Witli tJtis crop the object is to uiatiirc ([iiicklij, rather 

 than to obtain a heavy acre yield; one basket of early 



