Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 38, Part 1890W. White, 1891 - Agriculture |
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... potash salts , nitrate of soda , sulphate of ammonia , and other materials which are dug from the earth or are waste products from other industries . The work of these pioneer investigators was not confined to plant nutrition ; they ...
... potash salts , nitrate of soda , sulphate of ammonia , and other materials which are dug from the earth or are waste products from other industries . The work of these pioneer investigators was not confined to plant nutrition ; they ...
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... potash , nitrogen and 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 ...
... potash , nitrogen and 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 ...
Page 157
... potash and 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 ...
... potash and 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 ...
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... potash , 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 ...
... potash , 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 ...
Page 160
... potash and 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 ...
... potash and 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 ...
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