The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-05


Dried blood, 13 per cent. nt............. 600
Muriate of potash, so per cent. ........ 80
Total ....... 2,OOO
This mixture is quite concentrated on account
of the high-grade phosphoric and potassic materi-
ais used and will contain: available phosphoric
acid 1O.5 per cent potash, 23 per cent; nitrogen,
3.9 per cent equal to ammonia, At per cent?.
Cottonseed may replace the meal in formulas
containing meal by allowing 2A pounds Of seed
for of meal.
NITRATE OF SODA
This material is quick acting because of it's
easy solubility in water. For this when
used in a considerable quantity in fertilizers at
time of planting, on light, sandy land there is
danger of it's being leached beyond the reach of
the roots of the plants before they can use It,
On clay lands and loans having good sub-soils,
to them this danger does not exist, certainly not
to the extent that it does on light soils. A small
amount of nitrate of soda in the mixture will
give the crop quick start and make its cultiva-
tion easier and more economical. Formula No.
has been arranged with this idea in view, and in
No. 2 one-half of the nitrogen comes from nitrate
of soda. On light lands it would likely be better
to omit the nitrate from the mixture and apply
it a top-dressing between the 10th and last
of June on early corn Nitrate of soda may take
the place of a portion of the other nitrogen
furnishing materials in any of the formulas, one
pound of nitrate beino equal in its content of
nitrogen to % pounds cottonseed meal, 2 pounds
fish scrap, 12 pounds dried blood. Nitrate of
soda is frequently used as a top-dressing for
and is valuable material for in this way.
A rood application is fifty to seventy-fve pounds
per acre, distributed along the side of the
dropped beside the plants and three or four inches
from them, else where there is ridge in the
centre it may be distributed this, and when it
is thrown out the nitrate will be thrown to the
two sides of the
APPLICATION OF FERTILIZERS CORN.
On clay lands and loans having good sub-soils
the fertilizer should be applied in the drill, at
just before planting, at the rate of two to four
it is best to fifty to one hundred in the drill
at time of planting, to give the crop good start,
and the balance of the fertilizer side dressing
when the corn has begun to grow we'll.
FERTILIZERS FOR CORN FoLLOwING f PEAS, ETC.
The best and most profitable yields of corn
where the corn follows peas velvet beans, crimson
clover, and other legumnous crops. These crops,
with acid phosphate and kanit other
potash salt, the best previous treatment and
fertilization for Where light crops of peas
have been grown in corn, out from the land and
the stubble left it would be safest to add some
nitrogen in the fertilizer mixture. In of
this kind it is suggested that the nitrogen-furnish
ing material in any of the preceding formulas be
reduced one-half. Where is to follow good
crops of velvet beans, peas sofa beans, especial
soil no further application of nitrogen need be
made, but it is advised that two hundred to three
hundred pounds per of the following mixture,
in the drill be used Just before planting:
Acid phosphate .............. 200 pounds.
B. W. KILGORE.