ISG 



P\)OD FOR Plants. 



Table Showing- the Number of Pounds of Nitrogen, Phosphoric 



Acid, and Potash Withdrawn Per Acre by an 



Average Crop. 



(From New York, New Jersey and Connecticut 

 Experiment Stations' Reports.) 



Name of Crop 



Barley 



Buckwheat 



Cabbage (white) 



Cauliflower 



Cattle turnips 



Carrots 



Clover, green (trifolium pratense) . . . . 



Clover ftrifoliuni pratense) 



Clover, scarlet (trifolium incarnatum) 



Clover (trifolium repens) 



Cow pea 



Corn 



Corn fodder (green) 



Cotton 



Cucumbers 



Esparsette 



Hops . 



Hemp 



Lettuce 



Lucern 



Lupine, green (for fodder) 



Lupine, yellow (lupinus luteus) 



Meadow hay 



Oats 



Onions 



Peas (pisuni sativum) 



Poppy 



Potatoes 



Rape 



Rice 



Rye 



Seradella 



Soja bean 



Sugar cane 



Sorghum (sorghum saccharatum) . 



Sugar beet (beef -root) 



Tobacco 



Vetch (visia sativa) 



Wheat 



Nitrogen 



78 



63 



213 



202 



1S7 



16(3 



171 



37 



95 



89 



254 



146 



122 



110 



142 



239 



200 



41 



289 

 219 



80 

 166 



89 



96 

 153 



87 

 119 

 154 



39 



87 

 128 

 297 

 518 

 446 



95 

 127 

 149 

 111 



Phosphoric 

 Acid 



35 

 40 

 125 

 76 

 74 

 65 

 46 

 18 

 17 

 29 

 64 

 69 

 66 

 32 

 94 

 36 

 54 

 34 

 17 

 65 

 46 

 37 

 53 

 35 

 49 

 39 

 30 

 55 

 79 

 24 

 44 

 57 

 62 

 37 

 90 

 44 

 32 

 35 

 45 



Potash 



62 



17 



514 



265 



426 



190 



154 



29 



57 



58 



169 



174 



236 



35 



193 



103 



127 



54 



72 



181 



63 



155 



201 



96 



96 



69 



87 



192 



124 



45 



76 



196 



87 



107 



561 



200 



148 



113 



58 



