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deal, as an easy calculation will show. In manufactories 

 where raw sugar is sold, much potash is disposed of with 

 the sugar, and in all manufactories the waste water always 

 carries off potash compounds, and although in compara- 

 tively small amounts, yet in sufficient quantity to account 

 for the difference between the amount of potash found in 

 the beet, and in the molasses. This is no theoretical consid- 

 eration, but one founded upon exact comparative analyses." 



" There are however large tracts of beet growing country 

 where, on account of the present state of things, or owing to 

 their locality, this style of manuring (with beet re- 

 fuse) is difficult or impossible. For such, as also for the 

 «ver present deficit above mentioned, we are thrown back 

 upon the "Potash salts," and this must be the case on many 

 farms till an easier method of manuring with beet refuse 

 [press cake] is discovered. Without allowing myself to go 

 into the question as to which is the best Potash salt, and 

 why such dissimilar results from manuring are observed, 

 I will nevertheless point out the fact that the universally 

 good results which follow the manuring with beet refuse 

 [press cake] will serve as a kind of guide board for us; that 

 is, that the present method of applying the Potash salts broad 

 cast over the field should be supplanted by another, viz : 

 dissolving the salt in liquids which are rich in organic matter. 



We should certainly expect that a solution of the Potash 

 salt in the urine from the stalls and stables for example, 

 would insure a very equal distribution of the Potash in the 

 soil, and in fact in a form better suited to the assimilative 

 powers of the plant, than scattering about small crystals of 

 an inorganic Potash compound. Naturally this same result 

 may be reached in other ways, as for example, by mixing a 

 concentrated water solution with the other manure, or with 

 the compost heap and applying to the field the manure 

 thus enriched with Potash. Experience and personal ex- 

 periment will point out the preferable way. 



