. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. n the same amount on March 15th; total, 180 pounds. RECENT FERTILIZER EXPERIMENTS. 93 Crops were cut for hay, May 25th. The yield of check plot was at therate of 2,200 pounds per acre; yield of fertilized plot, at the rate of3,340 pounds per acre. A small portion of each plot was left to ripen grain, and the gainwas notable here, as the unfertilized land yielded at the rate of six anda fourth centals per acre, while the fertilized plot yielded at the rate ofnearly thirteen an
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. n the same amount on March 15th; total, 180 pounds. RECENT FERTILIZER EXPERIMENTS. 93 Crops were cut for hay, May 25th. The yield of check plot was at therate of 2,200 pounds per acre; yield of fertilized plot, at the rate of3,340 pounds per acre. A small portion of each plot was left to ripen grain, and the gainwas notable here, as the unfertilized land yielded at the rate of six anda fourth centals per acre, while the fertilized plot yielded at the rate ofnearly thirteen and three fourths centals. Six centals per acre was theaverage yield of winter-sown wheat in the neighborhood. ^ The gain made as regards hay crops on this land, by the applicationof $ worth of nitrate per acre, was therefore something over half aton, worth in the field, unbaled, about $ The gain in yield of grainwas greater, being over seven centals, worth about $7. The foreman reports that the effect of the nitrate upon the growth ofthe wheat was very marked as soon as sufficient rain fell to dissolve the. r.
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