Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 38, Part 1890W. White, 1891 - Agriculture |
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Page 132
... phosphoric acid ; and the 490,000,000 bushels raised last year represented $ 197,421,000 worth of these three prime elements of plant growth A conservative estimate would put the amount of these elements carried back to the field at not ...
... phosphoric acid ; and the 490,000,000 bushels raised last year represented $ 197,421,000 worth of these three prime elements of plant growth A conservative estimate would put the amount of these elements carried back to the field at not ...
Page 157
... phosphoric acid , or more than enough plant food to raise twenty - five bushels of wheat to the acre . There is a big question here in regard to furnishing fertili- zers to the soil most economically , and getting the nitrogen , potash ...
... phosphoric acid , or more than enough plant food to raise twenty - five bushels of wheat to the acre . There is a big question here in regard to furnishing fertili- zers to the soil most economically , and getting the nitrogen , potash ...
Page 158
... phosphoric acid and nitrogen , computed at the ordinary prices . Well , this so astounded me that I dared not publish it ; and so the next winter I took particular pains to count all the animals , to estimate very carefully the amount ...
... phosphoric acid and nitrogen , computed at the ordinary prices . Well , this so astounded me that I dared not publish it ; and so the next winter I took particular pains to count all the animals , to estimate very carefully the amount ...
Page 160
... phosphoric acid . We have never bought nitrogen except what little we have got in fine - ground bone , buying simply those two cheap elements of plant food , and but very little of the high - priced nitrogen , trusting to luck , perhaps ...
... phosphoric acid . We have never bought nitrogen except what little we have got in fine - ground bone , buying simply those two cheap elements of plant food , and but very little of the high - priced nitrogen , trusting to luck , perhaps ...
Page 249
... phosphoric acid and nitrogen for crops upon the soil of the college farm ; of the experiments being made with buck- wheat , mustard , etc. , as late - grown crops for ploughing under ; and of many other ways which we observed , but will ...
... phosphoric acid and nitrogen for crops upon the soil of the college farm ; of the experiments being made with buck- wheat , mustard , etc. , as late - grown crops for ploughing under ; and of many other ways which we observed , but will ...
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