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Show m ... Facts About Fertilizers in Sugar Ocet Cultivation. Wo consider it. very necessary to refer constantly to feitilizers in sugut-beet cultivation, for thcie will be n time wiien they will play u mest iinportant rol-3 in many States that mo now devoting devot-ing their attention to beets. A fact to be nhvays born in mind is, that sugar beets vary in size and quality with the nature and composition of soil on which they are planted. As eaily as 1875 Deheiian determined to follow very rlosly the action of plant foods upon sugar beets, so for the past twenty-two yeais there aro portions of land attheGrignon Experimental Faun that have been under constant cultivation, cultiva-tion, but have leceiyed no additional fertilizer. Under these conditions1 potatoes and oats liavo continued to thrive; with wheat n difference iB noticed- but the crop still continues satisfactory; beets appeared above ground, but could not continue their development and nfter,n few days nearfyj aHtAyoungJplaii tjtsisa ppeared? ISyfno'ftOT exhausted soils it wris possible to obtain a small crop of beets, A3 these phosphates phos-phates may be purchased at comparative ly low prices there is no reason w hv farmers in certain cases should not give them a trial, the quantities to be used being determined by an experimental test. When the amelioration of conditions con-ditions is no longer noticeable the limit has been reached and no further addition can be profitable. In tho&e oases where farmers used, suy, eight tons of barnyard manuro tho autumn before planting, tho soil is thus supplied with 105 11p. of phosphoric acid, which is sufficient to meet the requirements of scientific beet cultivation. cultiva-tion. It must not be foi gotten that the barnyard manure should be plowed under to a depth, when possible, of twelve inches The lumps of ear'th brought to tho earth become frozen and before spring roe pulverised by the action of thawing of ice, owing to (ho expansion and increase of volume of the natural moisturo or that absorbed after rain. No agricultural implement l'as evor been constructed that can accomplish ac-complish this work of disintegration eo effectually. Lands that have to undergo under-go an entire preparation just before sowing ore never in the condition! so favoiable for the best development as when fall plo.ved. There is an 'Jm portant word of warning regardingjthe use of barnyard manure, evon undemhe conditions we have just montioned. Wo only need recall the experiences in France in 18S0, for there was then considerable con-siderable alarm among tlie man facturers, fiom year to year tho saccharine quality of the toots was diminishing. Some ngonomiets declared that the soil was becoming exhausted ot its potassa, which alkali is taken up by tho beet during its growing; then potassic craze followed, but numerous experiments showed beyond cavil that the deterioration deteriora-tion in the quality of beots was not due to tho absence of potassa in the soil, but to the excess of those nitric elements furnished by tho barnyard maniuo, giving satisfactory crops to tho farmer but of an inferior quality for 6ugar extraction, ex-traction, tho sugar percentage of beets a n 11 .! imniiiiiM'1 .i..i,m .i.l.ii m? Mi liwnmii. iw. ait ,s u - . V " . . '. being always iuveifoly pioportional to' their nitric poiventage From 1884 a new law wan naset'd, and thomr.nu-facfuiers, thomr.nu-facfuiers, being anxious to pccure beets ofwiperior quality, offered n sliding J SMle of prices depending upon'suirar1 rjeTentaco. A written agreement was required that barnyard manure, orony other nitiie fertilizer, slmu'd not ho used; difficulties, however, frequently aWo between 'interested pnrtiep; farmers were accused of hayiutr used the nitric t.lant-foods with tho view to in-crcasinir in-crcasinir their yields. Pome years later it was demonstrated that certain fertile p'bils when undergoing fermnntation produco nitrates without any being added by tho tiller. The Suar Beet. |