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field, and a stand of clover, while none of any account stood 

 on the rest of the field." 



Instructions for Using Nitrate of Soda on Wheat. 



As soon as frost leaves the ground in the spring, 

 apply the Nitrate of Soda by broadcasting it evenly, 

 by hand or by machine, over the entire surface of the 

 wrheat field you are fertilizing, at the rate of 100 

 pounds per acre, which is equal in bulk to one bushel. 



Formula for Wheat. 



Nitrate alone 100 lbs. per acre 



or preferably 



Nitrate 150 lbs. per acre 



Acid Phosphate 150 lbs. per acre 



When potash salts can be conveniently obtained 

 we advise the use of fifty pounds of sulphate or 

 muriate of potash to the acre every other year, 



OATS. 



This grain does v^ell on nearly all types of soil, but 

 responds freely to good treatment. There is a vast 

 difference in the quality of oats v^^hen grov^n on poor 

 or rich soils. Perhaps no other crop so effectually 

 conceals impoverishment ; at the same time the feed- 

 ing value of oats grown on poor soil is very low. In 

 the North oats are sown in the spring, and usually 

 after corn or a turned down clover sod. In such cases 

 the crop is rarely ever given fertilizer, but shows an 

 excellent return from a broadcast dressing of 100 

 pounds of Nitrate of Soda per acre. The crop has 



