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FOOD FOR PLANTS 



Strong foraging powers, and will find available min- 

 eral plant food where a wheat crop would utterly fail. 

 On soils pretty badly exhausted, an application of 400 

 pounds of fertilizer will yield a profitable return, 



Oats. 



30 Bushels. 

 Average product per acre, 

 for the U. S. of oats, with 

 average farm fertilization. 



65 Bushels. 

 The product of an acre of 

 oats fertilized with Nitrate 

 of Soda. 



provided the dressing of Nitrate is not omitted. 

 Under any condition of soil or fertilizing, a sickly 

 green color of the young crop shows need of Nitrate 

 of Soda plant food, and the remedy is a dressing of 

 Nitrate. In seeding, use two or three bushels to the 

 acre. 



