Food for Land sown to Wheat in the fall and seeded down with 



Plants ti mo thy and clover giving a heavy crop, followed by a heavy 



^ 4 hay crop the following year, proved the beneficial ajter- 



effect of the Nitrate and that tke 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 County, Virginia. I used 200 pounds per acre on 

 part of the field which had been fertilized with 400 pounds acid phosphate 

 in the fall. The result was 9 bushels 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. 



w , P . From 100 to 150 pounds of Nitrate 



of Soda per acre should be broadcasted 

 ments in , 



c , , on wheat, as soon as the new growth shows 



England. , ^. , & r 



in the spring. Ihe results of such treat- 

 ment are shown by experiments made by three English gentle- 

 men, which are tabulated as follows, mineral plant food be- 

 ing present in abundance: 



I. No Nitrate, 23 bu. 300 Ibs. Nitrate, 33.5 bu. Gain 46 p. ct. 



II. " 15 " 300 " " 28.0 " " 87 " 



III. " 34 " 300 " " 49.0 " " 44 " 



Average 59 " 



^ Another illustration is an experiment 



Cotton-seed , , , , ^ , 7 , , f , 



,,,, , r> made by the late Dr. Voelcker; 672 pounds 



Meal Compared , , . ' 



. . j^. of cotton-seed meal were used in compari- 



son with 275 pounds of Nitrate of Soda, 

 with the result that the latter gave a return of 46.75 bushels 

 per acre, a gain over the cotton-seed meal of nearly 24 per 

 cent.y the above enormous application of cotton-seed meal 

 yielding but 37.7 bushels per acre. 



Forty Bushels of Wheat to the Acre a Possible Aver- 

 age on Many Ohio Farms. 

 Bulletin 282, Ohio Experiment Station. 

 For twenty years the Ohio Experiment Station has 

 grown potatoes, wheat and clover in a three-year rotation on 

 one of its farms in Wayne county, a farm no better in natural 

 fertility than thousands of others which may be found in this 

 region of the State. 



