. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). and nitrifying agents. Sandy land is improved also by having the interspaces filled with vegetable matter, which greatly increases its absorptive capacity. A leading difference between the commercial fertilizer and the barnyard manure lies in this secondary function possessed by the latter, viz.: that of improving the physical character of the soil. (See Voorhees on Fertilizers.) The commercial fer- tilizer cannot be counted on to improve greatly the phy
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). and nitrifying agents. Sandy land is improved also by having the interspaces filled with vegetable matter, which greatly increases its absorptive capacity. A leading difference between the commercial fertilizer and the barnyard manure lies in this secondary function possessed by the latter, viz.: that of improving the physical character of the soil. (See Voorhees on Fertilizers.) The commercial fer- tilizer cannot be counted on to improve greatly the physical character. 10.— Place the manure where the feeding roots can iise it, not in a pile at the hase of the tree only. of the soil; its chief function is to furnish plant-food. The indirect or secondary effects of commercial fertilizers are slight. The com- mercial fertilizer adds to the soil the essential food constituents, while the barnyard manure does this and in addition helps to make the constituents, already in the soil, serve as food to the plant. These considerations sliow at once the value of barnyard manure 395. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. Ithaca, N. Y. : The University
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