Salt Lake Herald | 1890-09-06 | Page 5 | Artificial Manures

Artificial Manures From exhaustive experiments made in England with artificial manures the Mark Lane Express draws the following deductions Phosphate alone for any crop is inadequate in-adequate and farmers should abandon the use of superphosphate by itself Nitrogen alone is unreliable for any crop Phosphates and nitrogen together with potash sometimes added are more beneficial benefi-cial to grain crops than most people imagine For root crops fertilizers containing con-taining phosphates nitrogen and potash give far the best results For grass manures containing phosphates and nitrogen sometimes with potash are the best kinds Oat and potato crops can be enormously increased by the use of the proper fertilizers I