| Show it esquite is quite reasonable suppose that innas can be with food as animals may be and that injury may result from it this is quite true as alic corn plant has a long acason of active growth it requires about one hundred days for ita maturity if all the tood which is required q mature the plant is added to alie soil in a soluble auila available condition at the ng a large quantity may be lost before the plant can utilize it soluble fertilizers diffuse themselves in a moist soil with great rapidity and are quickly carried off by the drainage water into the subsoil sir J B laats has noticed the nitric acid of nitrate of soda which has been applied to the surface soil escaping in the water flowing from the drains in forty eight hours after tion if then six hundred pounds pythis fertilizer should be applied to alie corn crop before the sowing of the seed it begin to bo lost before a single root has been formed to arrest its escape this fact 8 given only as an instance of how t erti lers may be lost by misapplication at the best an excess of fertilizing til material given to corn in its early a rank growth of stalk and the plant food is ex hausted before it can be converted into grain which is the most valuable part of the crop During some years we corn under a new system of fertilizing which is to apply the fertilize erat intervals as after each time of cultivation instead of before and immediately of the planting the effect has been to increase the yield of grain and decrease the growth of stalk by this method eighty bushels of grain per acre have been produced and in growing sweet corn for sale fine large and well filled cars are secured the fertilizer ia busied along the tows before he cultivator misused is used or immediately after and the first shower carries it down to the roots the same method of applying fertilizers tili has been used for root crops with favorable results american agricultural for june |
