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muriate of potash and 50 pounds of nitrate of soda should be applied; 

 the clover following the wheat calls for no fertilizer, but the timothy 

 during the second year the land is in grass may be profitably treated with 

 a complete fertilizer consisting of 150 pounds of acid phosphate, 150 

 pounds nitrate of soda and 50 pounds muriate of potash, applied broad- 

 cast early in the spring just as the grass starts to grow. Such a scheme 

 of treatment makes a place for all the manure on the average farm and 

 provides for the application of the fertilizer where it will be most fully 

 used and give the largest returns. 



A similar scheme of treatment will be found to fit various localities 



Effect of Top Dressing Meadows with Commercial Fertilizer. 



On left, average yield, 2060 pounds cured hay per acre. 

 On right, average yield, 3637 pounds cured hay per acre. 



Grass on right, top dressed early each spring with 350 pounds per acre of 7-7-7 

 fertilizer. Average of four consecutive years. 



in all states. The details will be determined by local conditions, and 

 frequently they have already been worked out for various localities either 

 by the experiment station of the state or by farmers. It is, therefore, 

 important that every farmer become informed on the best practice for 

 his locality. 



How to Determine Needs of Soil. — The fertilizer needs of a soil are 

 best determined by applying to the soil and for the crops grown different 

 kinds and combinations of fertilizers. This puts the question directly 

 to the soil, and the crops give the answer by their growth and condition. 

 Such soil tests with fertilizers have proven more practicable and satis- 

 factory than any others thus far devised. A chemical analysis of the soil 



