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Food Necessary for Plants, ------ 3 



Are the Farmers of Europe More Intelligent Than Those 



of America ? ------- i-^ 



Nitrate and Potash Test at Kentucky Experiment Station, - 18 



Supplement, -------- -^i 



Michigan Experiments on Sugar Beets in 190 1, - - 40 



Nitrate Nitrogen vs. Ammonia Nitrogen, - - - ^2 



What Orange Growers Say, ------ 48 



Profitable Onion Cultivation, - - - - - 52 



Stable Manure and Artificial Fertilizer Upon Fruit Trees, - 58 



How Big Chrysanthemums Are Made, _ _ - fco 



Market Gardening with Nitrate, - - - - - 61 



Typhoid from the Soil, _--__- y^ 



How to Use Chemical Fertilizers to Advantage, - " 75 



Wheat and Oats, Rye and Barley, _ _ _ . yg 

 Fertilizers for Fruits, -------80 



How Nitrate Benefits the Farmer, - - - 81 



Niter in Fertilizing, California Bulletin, - - - - ^5 



Grass Growing for Profit, _ _ . _ . 88 

 Making Two Blades of Grass Grow — Grass a Responsi\e 



Crop, ----- -- --89 



Nitrate of Soda Experiments at the North Carolina State 



Horticultural Society's Experiment Farm, - - ico 



The Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, - - 125 

 Summary of Bulletin No. 150 — Value of Different Forms 



of Ammoniates, - - - - - - 126 



Terms Used in Discussing Fertilizers, - - - 129 



South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, - - 131 



University of Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, - 133 



Purdue University — Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, 133 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture — Experiment Station 



Work, XII — Farmers' Bulletin No. 105, - - 136 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture — Farmers' Bulletin No. 122 



— Experiment Station Work, XVI, - - - - 138 

 Experiment Station Work, XIII — Farmers' Bulletin No. 



107, - - - - - - - - - 139 



Summarv of Increased Yields from Application of 1 00 Pounds 



per Acre of Nitrate of Soda, - - - _ 1^3 

 Table Showing Prices of Nitrate of Soda on the Ammoniate 



Basis, - - - - - - - -144 



Some Practical Hints Regarding Nitrate, _ _ . 145 



