Food for in 1870, and we had no grass anywhere except upon the Nitrate plots. We 

 Plants found roots four feet deep from the surface, evidently following the Nitrate 

 ^ and of course getting water from the soil." 



Mr. C. L. Fuller, a large and practical farmer of 

 Rensselaer County, N. Y., wrote us in September, 1892, 

 as follows : 



What ^nn lh<! " ^n regard to Nitrate of Soda, I have used it on grass 



' more than any other crop. It gives me large crops of 

 or IN urate Uia j^^^^ Yhis year I had three acres of new seeding that 

 for (jfass. I put 200 pounds per acre on and I have cut twenty- 



one large two-horse loads from it at two cuttings. This lot three years ago 

 produced little but moss, and would not keep one cow through the summer. 

 I have other land that was so nearly exhausted that it required eleven acres 

 to produce four tons of hay of poor quahty. I have succeeded in getting it 

 seeded with the use of 400 lbs. of fertilizer (phosphate and potash), and a 

 little stable manure, and then by the use of 200 pounds Nitrate of Soda last 

 spring, I cut four tons of hay per acre this season.^'' 



r^ , r^ Gardeners who make a specialty of growing 



Garden Crops. , . , 1 u r' j r 1 ^ 



large areas or early cabbage nnd it almost 



impossible to make the land rich enough the first year. 



They find that the second or third crop, grown and 



manured every year on the same land, is better and earlier 



than the first crop. 



An experienced American gardener recommends the 

 application, every year, of 75 to 80 tons of stable manure 

 per acre for early cabbage and 10 tons per acre tor late 

 cabbage. Many gardeners make this distinction between 

 early and late cabbage, and yet the late cabbage produce 

 much the larger crops and remove far more plant food from 

 the soil than the early crops. 



A market gardener near New York, who used large 

 quantities of manure and was very successful, was about to 

 open a street through his garden. Believing his land to be 

 sufficiently rich to carry through a crop of cabbage without 

 manure, he thought it useless to waste money by using 

 guano on that portion on which the street was to be, but 

 on each side he sowed guano at the rate of 1,200 pounds 

 per acre, and planted the whole to early cabbages. "The 

 effect," says the lamented Peter Henderson, who relates 

 the incident, " was the most marked that I ever saw. That 

 portion on which the guano had been used sold readily at 

 %\i per hundred, or about 1 1,400 per acre, but the portion 



