Food for Plants. 



Nitrate is a powerful plant tonic, food and energizer; 

 it is not a stimulant in any sense of the word; a very small 

 quantity does a very large amount of work. 



We never recommend the use of Nitrate of Soda alone, 

 except at the rate of not more than one hundred (100) 

 pounds to the acre, when it may be used without other fer- 

 tilizers. The phosphate, lime and potash manures should 

 usually be applied in connection with Nitrate of Soda at the 

 rate of about two hundred and fifty (250) pounds to the acre 

 of each. This rate will be found generally profitable for all 

 crops. Nitrate is best applied as a Top-dressing in the spring 

 soon after vegetation begins to grow. It will be found quite 

 satisfactory also in its after-effect in perceptibly sweetening 

 sour land. 



It is well known that animals, and especially young ani- 

 mals, must have all the food they can digest 

 in order to properly develop and grow. Food Necessar V 

 This is equally true of plants. Plants will for Plants ' 

 manage to live on very little food, but to grow, thrive and 

 bear fruit they likewise require an abundance of food. 



The Food of Plants consists of a number of elements, 

 including Nitrate, phosphate, lime and potash. A sufficient 

 quantity of all these necessary elements, except Nitrate, phos- 

 phate and potash, exists in nearly all soils. Nitrates are nearly 

 always deficient, phosphates and potash frequently. 

 In some soils there may be enough of all the ele- 

 ments of plant food except one. This 

 may safely be assumed to be Nitrate. In W " v r 

 this case the growth and yield of the crop 1S Indispensable, 

 will be limited only by the quantity of Nitrate it can assimi- 

 late. There might be an abundant supply of all the other 

 elements, but plants can never use other kinds of food with- 

 out Nitrate. 



Nitrate Nitrogen is the food that is 

 nearly always deficient. The question that Nitrate 

 presents itself to the farmer, gardener and Nearly Always 

 fruit grower is, How can I supply my Deficient. 



