Food for it should be remembered that plants take up most of 



5 their Nitrogen during the early period of their growth. 



// is now known that there is not as much danger of it 

 being leached out of the soil by the rains during the growing 

 season as has been generally believed, since the rains seldom 

 reach lower than the bottom of the furrow, and the move- 

 ment of the soil moisture is up instead of down. Besides, soil 

 moisture is strongly held by good soils by capillary attraction. 



Nitrate of Soda looks somewhat like common dairy salt, 

 and horses, cows and sheep, if they can get to it, may eat it 

 to an injurious extent. 



The emptied bags, especially in damp weather, have 

 more or less Nitrate adhering to them. After emptying, it is 

 a good plan to soak in water, which will make an excellent 

 liquid manure, say one empty bag to a barrel of water. 



// lumpy, the Nitrate should be broken up fine, which 

 is easily done by pounding it on the barn floor with the back 

 of a spade or shovel, or by a hand grinding machine made 

 especially for home mixing, which is now in common use in 

 Europe and is beginning to be used in America. 



Nitrate of Soda, unlike other Ammoniates and "com- 

 plete fertilizers," can be mixed with lime or ashes without 

 loss of Nitrogen. 



The fallow in modern agriculture, S. RHODIN 

 (K. Landtbr. Akad. Handl. och Tidskr., 45 (1906), 

 No. i, pp. 57-72, fig. /). The evidence and views 

 in regard to the value of bare fallow, especially 

 in Swedish agriculture, are briefly discussed. While 

 bare fallow of loose sandy soils is not to be 

 recommended, because the losses of Nitrogenous substances 

 occurring, generally speaking, exceed the gains through Ni- 

 tration, this is not the case with other types of soils. Here an 

 accumulation of Nitrates takes place through the fallow, 

 which greatly benefits the following grain crop. 



Field experiments with cabbages in 1903 and with pota- 

 toes in 1904 and 1905 were conducted for the purpose of 

 determining whether inoculation of sandy soils with fallow 

 soil would prove beneficial on account of the large bacterial 

 content of the latter. The systems of fertilization followed 

 are shown below, the different plats receiving as a basal fer- 

 tilizer 37 per cent, potash salt and Thomas phosphate, at the 



