8 GRASS GROWING FOR PROFIT 
the plants occupying the ground at that time or has 
been washed down below the reach of the roots of 
the young plants by the melting snow and the heavy 
rains of late winter and early spring. 
When we consider the fact that most plants re- 
quire and take up about 75 per cent. of their total 
Dynamite. 
Nitrate Ammoniate during the earlier stages of their 
growth and that Nitrogen is the element most largely 
entering into the building up of the life principle 
(or protoplasm) of all plants, it is plain that we can- 
not afford to jeopardize the chances of growing crops 
by having only an insufficient supply of immediately 
available Nitrogen when it is most needed. 
In the case of hay, from timothy 
and other grasses, the experiments 
that have been conducted answer the first question 
Hay 
