. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. Not Fertilized. Fertilized. Plate 11. Samples of Oat Chop of 1900. Not Fertilized. Fertilized. Plate 12. Samples of Wheat Crop of 1900. much better. Second application, made April 1st followed by a rainConsisted of sodium nitrate at the rate of 85 pounds per acre, muna eof potash at the rate of 100 pounds per acre, and Thomas phospha e atthe^rate of 180 pounds per acre. Hay cut May 30th (as on check plot)weight green, at the rate of 11,927 pounds per acre; weight cured, at th
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. Not Fertilized. Fertilized. Plate 11. Samples of Oat Chop of 1900. Not Fertilized. Fertilized. Plate 12. Samples of Wheat Crop of 1900. much better. Second application, made April 1st followed by a rainConsisted of sodium nitrate at the rate of 85 pounds per acre, muna eof potash at the rate of 100 pounds per acre, and Thomas phospha e atthe^rate of 180 pounds per acre. Hay cut May 30th (as on check plot)weight green, at the rate of 11,927 pounds per acre; weight cured, at the rate of 4,995 pounds per acre. rrv, v,o„v ^]m vipld This was by far the best oat crop m the region. The check plot > eldof on and one fifth tons per acre was worth in the field, cured, not baled$12 ner acre; but the yield of a fertilized acre as shown was worth about$25. The value of the fertilizer used was about $10, leaving a profit of $3 RECENT FERTILIZER EXPERIMENTS. 91 resulting from its use. But according to former experience, the benefitof the phosphate would be much more manifest the following sea
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