1912. 
THE RURAS, NEW-YORKEk 
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How to Use Manure for Corn. 
The Analysis of a Fertilizer. 
E. P. G., Grafton, Hass .—Will you give 
the best way to apply farmyard manure for 
corn ? Is the best way to spread it on grass 
sod and plow under, or spread on the fur¬ 
rows and harrow in? And what about light 
land with gravel subsoil, and would you 
plow deep? 
Ans. —It will depend somewhat on the 
manure and its condition. As hauled 
right from the barnyard day by day or 
at the end of Winter, we prefer to 
spread it on soil and plow under. That 
is the best disposition of it. Where the 
manure has been composted and is fine 
enough it may be spread after plow¬ 
ing and harrowed in. 
First Crop on Muck. 
H. L. H., Canandaigua, N. Y .— I have 
about 10 acres of muck land I wish to plow 
up this Spring. It has nothing but coarse 
grass on it now. What crop would d* 
best on it at first? Would it do to lime 
it and plant cabbage, putting plenty of 
commercial fertilizer on it? This is what I 
should prefer if it will do. 
Ans. —If this land is drained so it can 
be plowed and fitted properly it can be 
put into cabbage. We should use at 
least one ton per acre of burned lime 
after plowing and work it in well. The 
usual and probably the best plan is to 
start with a crop of corn on such land. 
As a rule its greatest fertilizing need is 
potash. 
Manure or Fertilizer on Asparagus. 
8. J., Arlington, N. Y .—Which would be 
the most beneficial in the long run in fer¬ 
tilizing an asparagus bed, using horse 
manure delivered to my place at $2 a ton, 
or a high-grade fertilizer? 
Ans. —I think you would derive more 
benefit from the use of horse manure 
under the conditions you have men¬ 
tioned. However, in my judgment you 
would get better results from the use of 
both horse manure and a high grade 
fertilizer. In early July I apply about 
1,000 pounds per acre of high-grade com¬ 
mercial fertilizer and in the Fall of the 
year after the growing season is over I 
apply 10 or 12 tons of manure per acre. 
G. G. I. 
N. A. S., Cocoa, Fla .—To settle an 
amicable controversy, and at the same time 
give to many of your readers who are not 
versed in chemistry much desired informa¬ 
tion along fertilizing lines, will you answer 
the following question? A buys 2,000 
pounds of mixed fertilizer, guaranteed as 
follows: Ammonia (nitrate of soda) five 
per cent, available; phosphoric acid (bone 
black) six per cent available; sulphate of 
potash, eight per cent available. Supposing 
these commercial chemicals to analyze, re¬ 
spectively 15, 18 and 50 per cent, how many 
pounds of each would A get in his 2,000 
pounds, and what would they cost him in 
the New York market at present prices? 
Ans. —It would be a low-grade nitrate 
of soda that would analyze only IS per 
cent of ammonia. Nitrate averages 16 
per cent of nitrogen, which is the same 
as 19.4 per cent ammonia. This 
ammonia is a combination of one part 
nitrogen and three of a light gas known 
as hydrogen. But taking your figures 
as you give them your ton should con¬ 
tain five per cent or 100 pounds ammonia, 
120 pounds phosphoric acid and 160 
pounds potash. If 100 pounds of the 
nitrate of soda contains 15 pounds of 
ammonia, and your ton requires 100, you 
will naturally need 667 pounds to supply 
it. Figuring in the same way there 
would be needed 667 pounds of the bone 
black and 320 pounds of sulphate of 
potash. ' In other words these 1654 
pounds of chemicals with 346 pounds of 
land plaster or dry rich soil or some 
other filler will contain the plant food 
found in this ton of fertilizer. As for 
the cost, we have just received the fol¬ 
lowing quotations from a reliable house: 
In ton lots nitrate $48, acid phosphate 
$11, and muriate of potash $39. 
A Home Mixed Fertilizer. 
G. C. II., Bristol, Conn .—Can you give 
me the necessary amount in pounds of each 
kind to get a fertilizer containing about 
four to five per cent nitrate of soda, six to 
eight per cent phosphoric acid. 10 to 12 
per cent potash. I wish to buy the chem¬ 
icals, and do not know the proper quan¬ 
tity of the different kinds to order, ton lots. 
Can you give what you think would be a 
better potato fertilizer? 
Potato Chemicals With Manure. 
G. D. T., Ovid, N. Y .—Would following 
mixture be good for potatoes on a clay 
loam soil where manure was spread last 
October? If not please change it. Nitrate 
of soda, 50 pounds, dried blood 200 pounds, 
acid phosphate 1,400 pounds, muriate of 
potash, 350 pounds. Would the mechanical 
condition of such a mixture be good? 
Ans. —If we lived in Connecticut and 
wanted a home mixture of chemicals we 
should apply to the experiment station 
at New Haven for bulletins. There you 
will find various mixtures stated with 
the analysis. If you want a mixture 
from the three chemicals mentioned you 
should figure as follows: Nitrate of 
Ans. —This would make a fair mix¬ 
ture with about the following analysis: 
50 lbs. nitrate . 
Nitro¬ 
gen 
. 8 
Plios. 
acid 
Pot¬ 
ash 
200 lbs. blood . 
. 24 
1400 lbs. acid phosphate 
, . . 
19(1 
350 lbs. muriate . 
... 
175 
32 
196 
175 
This means per cent nitrogen, 10 
phosphoric acid and 8H potash. You 
would have a better mixture by using 
100 pounds less of the acid phosphate 
and 50 pounds more each of nitrate and 
blood. This mixture will not be first 
class in mechanical condition. 
More About Orchard Fertilizers. 
H. M. B., Bor dent own, N. J .—On page 234 
is a little article entitled “Fertilizing an 
Orchard.” In the last paragraph of that it 
speaks of using “three parts by weight of 
acid phosphate and one part of muriate of 
potash or three parts basic slag and one 
part sulphate of potash.” Will you tell me 
why you use muriate in one combination and 
sulphate in the other? I find myself with 
a run-down orchard of 500 trees on my 
hands, and am determined to get in shape 
as soon as I can. 
Ans. —The reason is a difference in 
chemical effect. The slag contains a 
large amount of lime which most soils 
soda contains 16 per cent of nitrogen. 
You want .in your ton 80 or 100 pounds. 
Therefore you need 500 or 625 pounds 
of the nitrate. Acid phosphate will carry 
14 per cent phosphoric acid. You want 
120 or 180 pounds, so you must have 
850 or 1100 pounds. Sulphate of potash 
contains 50 per cent of potash. You 
want 200 or 240 pounds and therefore 
need 400 or 480 pounds of sulphate. You 
can make such a mixture, but it will not 
be the best, for such a fertilizer ought 
to have several different forms of nitro¬ 
gen. In the last Connecticut bulletin are 
several better ones. For instance this: 
250 pounds nitrate of soda, 700 pounds 
tankage, 690 acid phosphate and 360 
muriate of potash. This gave 3.98 per 
cent nitrogen, 10.30 available phosphoric 
acid and 9.40 potash. Or this one: 150 
nitrate of soda, 668 ground bone, 435 
tankage, 400 acid phosphate, 400 muriate 
of potash. This gave 3.56 nitrogen, eight 
phosphoric acid and 10 potash. Or still 
another: 400 nitrate of soda, 300 dried 
blood, 900 ground bone, 400 sulphate of 
potash. This analyzed five per cent 
nitrogen, 8.3 phosphoric acid and 10.6 
potash. That is a simple mixture, easily 
mixed, and designed principally for 
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The Rogers & Ilubbard.Co., 
Middletown, Conn. 
Dear Sirs:—A field of early Mastodon corn yielded 
30 or more tons to the acre. Mastodon corn does 
not grow as large as some other kinds but it cars 
out well. We weighed some of the ears which 
weighed from 2 1-2 to 2 3-4 lbs. apiece. 
On this piece I used 300 lbs. of Hubbard’s “ Bono 
Base” Soluble Corn and General Crops Manure, 
after applying a light coat of barnyard manure. 
S. M. Jones 
Watertown, Conn., Oct. 23,1911 
The Rogers & Hubbard Co., . 
Middletown, Conn. 
Dear Sirs:—I have some very fine corn of the long 
yellow variety, some of the ears HHnohos long. I 
used at the rate of 300lbs. to the acre of Hubbard’s 
‘•Bone Base” Soluble Corn and General Crops 
Manure broadcast and 300 lbs. in the hill of Hub¬ 
bard’s ‘‘Bono Base” New Market Garden Phos¬ 
phate and have harvested 175 bushels of corn in tho 
ear. As wo had no rain from the first of June 
until August, I call this a good yield and speaks 
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A. Q. Johnson 
Goffstown, N. It., Oct. 24, 1911 
need. The muriate of potash contains 
salt. The chlorine in this salt will unite 
with the lime in the slag to form 
chloride of lime. This is a soluble form 
and will be washed out of the soil quite 
easily and thus lost. The sulphate of 
potash contains little or no salt and thus 
when used with the slag will not form 
the chloride. There would be no such 
combination with the acid phosphate. 
Fertilizer for Clay Soil. 
Can you tell me what is best to use in 
home mixed commercial fertilizer for corn 
on a clay soil? I broke up sod last Fall 
and sowed to rye, and I will plow rye under 
and plant the field to corn. The field would 
not grow hay, as it had not been plowed or 
seeded in 12 years. m. k. 
Pennsylvania. 
A mixture of 200 pounds of dried blood, 
400 tankage, 400 pounds muriate of potash 
and 1000 pounds acid phosphate ought to 
make the corn grow on that old sod. Use 
500 pounds at least per acre. 
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