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people have a wrong impression about salt. They think when they salt 

 cattle and sheep that salt kills the grass, but this is not so. The stock kills 

 it by eating the ground where the salt was put down. I will admit that salt 

 will kill most plants, and would Mke to find some one who would pay for 

 enough for me to try the expei'iment. 



I hold that in the West land needs salt as much as cattle do. The first 

 time I tried it was on a twenty-acre lot sowed with spiing wheat. In two 

 weeks I conld see the difl"erence between what I sowed with salt and that 

 which had received no salt, and I could also see the diflference when 

 harvested. The part sowed mth salt had no chinch bugs, while on the 

 other, which had no salt, I could gather up a quart to every sheaf the reaper 

 threw ofi". I have never seen any damage done by chinch bugs where there 

 had been two hundred pounds of salt sowed broadcast on the crop. The 

 time for sowing is when the gi-ain is about four inches high. I have sowed 

 salt when the grain was coming out in head, and with good results, but 

 would prefer to sow it earlier. 



I prefer packing salt because it contains more or less grease and fat, be- 

 sides blood from the meat, which is the essence of manure. Let farmera try 

 the experiment, if only on a small piece, and not wait for some one else. 

 Wheat yielded from twenty to thirty-five bushels per acre where salt was 

 sowed, and where it was not sowed the wheat was not worth the cutting. 

 Most of those who did cut it got nothing but No. 4 wheat, weighing fifty-one 

 and fifty-two pounds to the bushel. 



Fm-inHlas for Commercial Fertilizerg. — A writer in the Fruit 

 Recorder says: To produce a crop of wheat over what the natural yield 

 would be without manure, I use about two hundred pounds sulphate of 

 ammonia, one hundred pounds ground bones, forty pounds oil of vitriol, 

 fifty pounds of muriate of jjotash, forty pounds sulphate of soda, one hundi'ed 

 and seventy pounds land plaster. 



For Indian corn, to produce about thirty bushels shelled per acre, over 

 natural yield: one hundred pounds of ground bones, forty pounds oil of 

 vitriol, one hundred and fifty jjounds sulphate of ammonia, one hundred and 

 twenty-five pounds muriate of potash, high grade or eighty per cent., thirty- 

 five pounds sulphate of soda, one hundred and twenty pounds land plaster. 

 For oats, to produce about thirty bushels over natural yield; One hun- 

 dred and fifty pounds sulphate of ammonia, fifty pounds ground bones, 

 twenty pounds oil of vitriol, fifty pounds muriate of potash (high grade), 

 thii-ty pounds sulphate of soda, one hundred pounds land plaster. 



For cabbage, to produce fourteen or fifteen tons over natural yield: 

 Three hundred and fifty pounds muriate of potash (high grade), four hun- 

 dred pounds sulphate of ammonia, two hundred and fifty pounds ground 

 bones, one hundred pounds oil of vitriol, fifty pounds sulphate of soda, two 

 hundred pounds of land plaster. 



For potatoes, to produce over two hundred bushels over natural yield: 

 Five hundred and fifty pounds sulphate of potash, two hundred pounds 

 sulphate of ammonia, one hundred pounds ground bones, forty pounds oil 

 of vitriol, one hundred and twenty pounds land plaster, torty pounds sul- 

 phate of soda. 



For onions, to produce about four hundred bushels over natural yield: 

 Two hundred and twenty pounds sulphate of ammonia, one hundred and 

 fifty pounds ground bones, sixty pounds oil of vitriol, two hundred and fifty 

 pounds sulphate of potash, one hundred and twenty poxinda land plaster. 



