Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 25W. White, 1878 - Agriculture Vols. for 1889-1894, 1906-1912 issued with the Annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station; vols. for 1895-1905 issued with the Annual report of the Hatch Environment Station of the Massachnusetts Agricultural College. |
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Page 10
... guano , and more recently in superphosphates and in a great variety of other forms ; but so great and so general had been the disappointment in their use , owing to the fraud and imposition in the manufacture , that farmers had come to ...
... guano , and more recently in superphosphates and in a great variety of other forms ; but so great and so general had been the disappointment in their use , owing to the fraud and imposition in the manufacture , that farmers had come to ...
Page 46
... guano , and it was the best crop of turnips that I ever saw grown : I won't except any crop . I don't know just how much guano I put on ; but it was a very small amount . I would like to hear some gentleman say something about ...
... guano , and it was the best crop of turnips that I ever saw grown : I won't except any crop . I don't know just how much guano I put on ; but it was a very small amount . I would like to hear some gentleman say something about ...
Page 47
... guano or any other fertilizer of that kind . Very few of us can afford , in my opinion , to buy these fertilizers . If we have our ground filled with manure , and wish to force a crop very early , then an appli- cation of a good ...
... guano or any other fertilizer of that kind . Very few of us can afford , in my opinion , to buy these fertilizers . If we have our ground filled with manure , and wish to force a crop very early , then an appli- cation of a good ...
Page 58
... then got something that they called German salts . I got also two kinds of guano , which I used , mixed with loam . I put them on about the first of June ; and , where I put the Brighton Fertilizer , it was not 58 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE .
... then got something that they called German salts . I got also two kinds of guano , which I used , mixed with loam . I put them on about the first of June ; and , where I put the Brighton Fertilizer , it was not 58 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE .
Page 144
... guano or muriate of ammonia ; the phosphoric acid in bones or pure bone - meal ; the potash from pure ashes , or more readily from kainit , or some high grade of the German potash salts . These three indispensable ingredients are used ...
... guano or muriate of ammonia ; the phosphoric acid in bones or pure bone - meal ; the potash from pure ashes , or more readily from kainit , or some high grade of the German potash salts . These three indispensable ingredients are used ...
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