The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-04-27
COMMERCIAL. FERTILIZERS
Formulas for Preparing the Same for
Various Crops.


Various Crops.
A writer In the Fruit Recorder
says: TO produce a crop of wheat over
what the natural yield would be with
out manure, | used about two hundred
pounds of sulphate of ammonia. one
hundred pounds ground bones, forty
pounds oil of vitroil, fifty pounds of
muriate of potash, forty pounds sui
phate of soda. one hundred and seventy
pounds land plaster.
For Indian corn to produce about
thirty bushels shelled per acre, over
natural yield; one hundred pounds of
ground bones, forty pounds oil of Wit
roll. one hundred and fifty pounds SUI.
phatc of ammonia, one hundred ana
twenty-five pounds muriate of potash
high grade or eighty per cent thirty
five pounds sulphate of soda, one hun
dred and twenty pounds land plaster.
For oats to produce about thirty
bushels over natural yield: One hun
hundred and fifty pounds sulphate of
ammonia, fifty pounds ground bones,
twenty pounds oil of vitroil, fifty
pounds muriate Of potash (high grade),
thirty pounds sulphate of soda, one
hundred pounds land plaster.
For cabbage, to produce fourteen or
fifteen tons over natural yield: Three
hundred and fifty pounds muriate of
potash (high grade), four hundred
pounds sulphate of ammonia, two hun
drcd and fifty pounds ground bones,
one hundred pounds oil of vitroil, fifty
pounds sulphate of soda, two hundred
punds of land plaster.
For potatoes, to produce over two
hundred bushels over natural yield:
Five hundred and fifty pounds sui
phate of potash, two hundred pounds
sulphate of ammonia, one hundred
pounds ground bones, forty pounds oil
of vitroil, one hundred and twenty
pounds land plaster, forty pounds sui
! phatc of soda.
| For onions, to produce about four
! hundred bushels over natural yield:
Two hundred and twenty pounds sui
| phate of ammonia, one hundred and
! fifty pounds ground bones, sixty pounds
oil of vitroil, two hundred and fifty
pounds sulphate of potash, one hundred
| and twenty pounds land plaster.
| For rutabagas. to produce ten to
| eleven tons over the natural yield; One
/ hundred pounds ground bones, forty
pounds oil of vitroil two hundred and
| sevCnty-five pounds sulphate of am
mona, six hundred pounds sulphate Of
potash one hundred and fifty pounds
land plaster, thirty-iive pounds sui
| phate of soda.
/ The above formulas are given in
| quantities for one acre of each kind of
crops.
1t requires one hundred pounds oil of
vitroil to dissolve forty pounds ground
bones. Put the ground bones into a
water tight plank box and soak the
bone with water for two or three days,
turning on about twenty-five ponnds of
water to each one hundred pounds of
bone; then turn on your oil of vitroil
and stir it thoroughly with Il wooden
stick, two or three times Il day for five
or six days, then mix in the sulphate
OF ammonia, next the murinte of potash
and sulphate of soda, and lastly the
land plaster; thoroughly mix the whole
mass together To dry it off and make
it fit to handle, incorporate dry muck,
fine charcoal or sawdust, but do not
use lime OF wood ashes rs dryer.
Sometimes farmers can collect bones
on their own or neighboring farms, or
get them very cheap from butcher,
in this case they want to mash them
up fine with a sledge, and about sixty
pounds oil of vitroil used to one hun
dred pounds of coarse bones.