will sum up to from $8.00 to $10.00, and the value of the ''ood for 

 resulting increased hay crop will yield on an average from ^'^ "^^ 

 :?30.oo to $48,00 per acre net profit. It is therefore evident ^ 

 that even with the present increased cost of Nitrate it pays 

 well to use Nitrate Uberalh on grass lands, and moreover, 

 hay prices now seem likely to advance still further. 



A reliable formula for Grass Lands per acre : 



300 lbs. Nitrate of Soda. 



250 lbs. muriate ot potash, or 1,000 pounds of wood ashes. 



300 lbs. basic slag or Peruvian guano or acid phosphate. 



I 50 lbs. air-slaked lime. 



1 ,000 lbs. 



A lo-pound sample of Nitrate can be secured free of 

 cost for trial bv any one who will furnish satisfactory refer- 

 ences, and you may try it for yourself on a plot twenty feet 

 square. This will be sent only on condition that you will 

 weigh the product of this plot and the product of a check 

 plot of the same size by its side and report on the respective 

 weights of the field-cured hav when you harvest the crop. 

 You will find such a trial w^ell worth your while. 



■ i'-^f / <-A 



MAKING TWO BLADES OF GRASS GROW.- 



Grass a Responsive Crop. 



To some farmers the idea of a direct application of 

 stable manure or of fertilizers to meadow or pasture is a 

 strange one. "Grass is a natural crop," they say; "it 



* This article is a summary of the experiments and observations recorded in Bulletins 57, 71, 82 

 and 90 of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts, and was written by an Experiment Station OfEcial. 



