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BULLETIN 115. 
The fertilizer used and the quantities of each intended for ap¬ 
plication, alone and in combination are as follows: 
Nitrate of soda, 200 pounds and 400 pounds. 
Sulfate of potash (high grade) 100 pounds 
Acid bone meal, 200 pounds. 
Acid bone meal was stated to have been made up In proportions 
as follows: 
1800 pounds steamed bone meal. 
750 pounds 50 Beaume sulphuric acid. 
All the fertilizers were passed through a one-fourth inch sieve 
and well mixed in the proportion desired. The land was plowed in 
the spring and prepared for planting in the usual way, which was 
done on May 1-2, sowing the fertilizer along with the seed by an at¬ 
tachment to the beet drill, approximating very closely the total 
amount desired per acre of each ingredient. The seed used at the 
rate is sixteen pounds per acre was the German imported Klein- 
wanzlebener supplied by the sugar factory. As before noted the 
seed germiniated quicker and stronger on the fertilized than the un¬ 
fertilized plats. Even the large quantity of 426 pounds per acre 
sodium nitrate with the seed had no injurious effect upon the ger¬ 
mination. The beets were hoed and thinned once, and cultivated 
and irrigated three times each. The two plats of nitrate of soda 
alone, especially the larger quantity, were distinguished by thrifty 
growth throughout the season, the larger quantity having apparently 
twice as large tops and much larger sized beets than any other plat. 
The harvest began October 24 and was finished November 29. 
Two-thirds of Plat 11 was weighed October 26, and the balance No¬ 
vember 13, for the reason that a snowstorm set in just as harvesting 
began, followed by a freeze, the temperature falling to eight below 
zero. The fields were protected by the fallen snow and no injury 
resulted only that harvesting was delayed ten days. When digging 
could be resumed, another freeze being feared, all the beets were 
plowed out as fast as possible, progressing from Plat 11 towards 
Plat 1. They were placed in piles and covered with tops. It thus 
occurred that Plats 4 to 1 inclusive were weighed without much loss 
or shrinkage, and Plats 5 to 10 inclusive, probably suffered consider¬ 
able loss through shrinkage, some of the beets being exposed over 
three weeks before being weighed. These facts must be considered 
in comparing results. 
Comments on Result of Fertilizer Experiment in 1905.—The most 
striking items of consideration in the experiment of 1905 are that the 
unfertilized plats gave the lowest yields in the series, and on an aver¬ 
age those containing nitrogen the highest. Some allowance must be 
made for the fact that Plats 1 to 3 gave nearly as high yields as those 
containing nitrate, as all the conditions were in favor of Plats 1 to 3 
showing greater weights, being harvested and weighed from two to 
three weeks later than the balance of the plats which were being ex¬ 
posed to shrinkage during that time. 
There are also two discrepancies in the fact that while phosphate 
