NEW JERSEY EXPERIMENT STATION. Food for 



Plants 



Bulletin No. gz. 35 



Some of the early work of this Station was with ferti- 

 lizers for tomatoes. The results in detail are given in the 

 Bulletin, but it showed that Nitrate of Soda was particularly 

 active with this crop and produced a larger increase than any 

 other single ingredient. An application of 160 pounds per 

 acre caused an increase of as much as five tons of tomatoes. 



There has been much valuable work conducted upon the 

 use of Nitrogenous Fertilizers with various crops, and par- 

 ticularly vegetables. This work has proven that this plant 

 food is a potent factor in increasing the yields and improving 

 the quality. 



Turnips and Swedes. 



Nitrate is applied for this crop quite in the same manner 

 as for mangolds. Dr. Macadam reported to the Arbroath 

 Farmers' Club a gain of 37 per cent, in yield from the use of 

 336 pounds of Nitrate of Soda per acre. 



An experiment conducted by Dr. Munro, of Downtown 

 Agricultural College, Salisbury, gave a re- 

 turn of nearly twenty and one-half tons "creased Yield, 

 per acre, from an application of 600 pounds of Nitrate per 

 acre, supplemented by phosphoric acid and potash. The 

 Nitrate was used in three applications. An application of 300 

 pounds of Nitrate resulted in a yield of thirteen and one-third 

 tons per acre. 



FERTILIZERS FOR FRUITS. 



Bulletin 66, Hatch Massachusetts Experiment Station. 



Lack of Nitrogen in the soil is detrimental to the size 

 and quality of the fruit. The cheapest and most available 

 Ammoniate is Nitrate of Soda. A few cents' worth applied 



