applied should not be more than 200 pounds per acre ; on 



rr , . f Plants 



wet land 100 to 150 pounds per acre is enough. 



Second — Be sure that there is enough phosphoric acid ^ 

 and potash in the soil. To do this, apply superphosphate 

 ("dissolved bone-black" or "acid phosphate") and sulphate 

 of potash before sowing the seed. 



Third — The beets should stand thickly in rows so that 

 the Nitrate will not make them grow too large. 



When these conditions and directions are complied with, 

 a large increase in the yield of beets may be expected with- 

 out any reduction in the percentage of sugar in them. 



The reason that Nitrate is the best form of Nitrogen to 

 use is because it is perfectly soluble and at once available 

 to the plants when they most need it, in the early stages of 

 their growth, while other forms of Nitrogen, such as dung, 

 animal refuse, cotton-seed meal and sulphate of ammonia, 

 are only slowly converted into available form (Nitrate), 

 and thus furnishing Nitrogen to the plants in the latter part 

 rather than the beginning of their growth, which delays 

 ripening and development of sugar in the beets. 



The effect of Nitrate of Soda is to give the young beet 

 a good start, and soon being used up, allows the beets to 

 ripen early and with the greatest development of sugar. 



The great and growing interest now ^.^^^^^ ^f g^^^ 

 taken in the subject of raising beet sugar in for Sugar Beets, 

 this countrv makes the use of Nitrate of 

 Soda on this crop of special interest, for it is only by the 

 judicious use of this fertilizer that we can hope to compete 

 with the best growers of Europe who have long profited 

 by its use. Dr. Maercker, one of the most eminent 

 authorities on sugar beet growing in Germany, says, in his 

 work, " Profitable Cultivation of the Sugar Beet :" 



"It is generally speaking impossible to grow sugar beets with profit with- 

 out supplying them in a judicious manner with easily assimilable Nitrogenous 

 food, and that, best of all, in the form of Nitrate of Soda. Of all our crops 

 the beet is the one whose requirements in Nitrogen are the greatest ; it is 

 capable of taking up Nitrogen in far greater quantities than are usually supplied 

 to it, and there are in this respect scarcely any Hmits to the increase of the 

 yield. 



*'In the first place, the question suggests itself : Why cannot we dispense 

 with the use of Nitrate of Soda ; and has it such special properties that it is 

 indispensable as food for the sugar beet ? The reply to this is : Yes, in 



