| Show rapid effects of ground bone M B balcham Bat cham of painesville gainesville Paines ville says say H in the rural new yorker yorkers of february Fe druary hough ason son bon of boota owns awn portage county 0 had five acres of clay loam so soll which they decided to sow with buckwheat mick Nick wheat they knew tha that t the land laud was poor poors but bu it having BO no fertilizer except one barrel pounds lofb of bone dust f from 0 m the h B alem salem toli toil juall thea applied 43 t this hi s broadcast ra ast on one half of the nield field only ny one hundred pound pounds per pr acre aher 0 e and harrowed ic ii in with th eseed egebo the field was all alike in oth othea respects sawed the last of june jube janethe ju et he in fair order and followed to bring the 1 1 plants ap in due time almost immediately affe their appearance iti began ta be seen that the plants tho tha fertilized half of the whre were more vigo vigorous rows thail than i the others and this increased n areas as the season advanced the 9 growth of the one bide ide being twide is as great aathar of the other and mild at t harvesting the portion eave gave aye ave nifty fifty six sli bushels of nice grain while the other half was not worth cutting ana and only tave gave six siz bushels I 1 found numerous instances where the bone dust had b been beon e on used by the farmers of Colum colu columbiana blana biana county not far from salem with excellent results when drilled in with VIM wheat and grass heedt beed greatly bene fitting the wheat crop and securing a five catch of grass krass and clover alad applied on 04 meadow and pasture land a well known dairy farmer in geauga geaugh county used several tons of the bone with very satisfactory results where he to bee see any benefit from a supposed fair article of applied at the same time a as the bone and at dt the same rate ratel of pounds to the I 1 acre I 1 will give kive hla hia address joany to any on who desires it I 1 most of the ex experiments p with that I 1 have observed been with cordy cords corn which needs apar ammonia noula mare more than p horle Acid and in a major majority ity of cases there has hasl been obvious benefit in giving the plants abs afi in the first part of the season but if ahe he land wets was not otherwise enrichi enrich 4 1 e edithp act h growth stopped when the ot away from inal influence uen nen co of the fertilizer which had been in the tiie hills and hence it in the earing time of oi course L la ia larger application is ift rk quiren for poor pooi soil and it needs in broad broadcast i cast ast I 1 found the sabie same true in regard to it ita its use faz foi p sadet sadei crops sud nud there was waa no perceptible cep tible benefit the second year even when th the a fon fin first t season tsia dry th e e at the ohe bame same rate fate was I 1 more lasting showing bisect et the second beason reason as well as the first j if at all freely used |
