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those found best for potatoes will do best for a 

 general mixed stock of what is usually termed 

 "bulbs." One carrying four per cent of nitrogen, 

 eight per cent of phosphoric acid and ten per cent 

 of potash is made as follows : nitrate of soda, thirty 

 pounds ; sulphate of ammonia, twenty pounds ; tank- 

 age, 100 pounds; acid phosphate, 250 pounds; muri- 

 ate of potash, 100 pounds; making a total of 500 

 pounds. Small gardens may easily use this formula 

 by cutting off one cypher from each figure and re- 

 ducing the total weight to fifty pounds. Use little 

 but often. 



