116 Ff)(>n FOR Plants. 



Nitrogen Tor wheat, tlie crop being generally grown in 

 rotation. Whatever Nitrogen the clover may have gath- 

 ered, a crop of timothy and a crop of corn nmst be sup- 

 plied before the wheat rotation is reached. In all cases 

 where the acre yields have fallen oft", a broadcast dress- 

 ing of Nitrate of Soda should be given. 



Drill in with the wheat in the fall a 

 How to Apply mixture of 150 pounds of acid phosphate 

 Nitrate of Soda and 50 pounds Nitrate of Soda per acre, 

 to Wheat. If your land is sandy, add 50 pounds of 



sulphate of potash to the above. Early 

 in the spring, sow broadcast 50 more pounds Nitrate of 

 Soda per acre. 



Land sown to wheat in the fall and seeded down with 

 timothy and clover giving a heavy crop, followed by a 

 hea\^' hay crop the following year, proved the beneficial 

 after-effect of the Nitrate and that the Nitrate had not 

 leached away as so many critics claim, and further that 

 the soil had not been exhausted. 



Professor Massey writes in regard to the effect of 

 Nitrate of Soda on Wheat, as follows : 



" I have made several experiments with Nitrate of Soda. The first 

 was on wheat in Albemarle Countj^, Virginia. I used 200 pounds per 

 acre on part of the field which had been fertilized with 400 ])onnds acid 

 phosphate in the fall. The result was 9 ))usliels per acre more than on 

 the rest of the field, and a stand of clover, while none of any account 

 stood on the rest of the field." 



Instructions for using Nitrate of Soda on Wheat. 



As soon as frost leaves the ground in the spring, apply 

 the Nitrate of Soda by broadcasting it evenly, by hand or 

 by machine, over the entire surface of the wheat field you 

 are fertilizing, at the rate of 100 pounds per acre, which 

 is equal in bulk to one bushel. 



Formula for Wheat. 



Nitrate alone 100 lbs. per acre 



or preferablv 



Nitrate \ 150 ;; ;; ;; 



Acid Phosphate 150 



