Instead of superphosphate, a mixture of this fertiliser with an equal amount of bone meal or basic slag may be used, and either 4 lb.
Humboldt, the great German traveller, brought some of the wonderful fertiliser home with him, and that its composition was able to be investigated by chemical analysis.
It is, indeed, difficult to over-estimate the important influence which the introduction of this most valuablefertiliser has exercised on British as well as, to a large extent, on European husbandry.
According to the late Dr Voelcker, a concentrated superphosphate may produce a smaller crop than a fertiliser containing only a quarter as much soluble phosphoric acid, when applied to root-crops on sandy soils, greatly deficient in lime.
When I found out how much fertiliser he had surprised his eight-by-twelve patch of ground with I diagnosed the case as one of water-brash or some similar form of soil indigestion.
What is the use of telling farmers that they should feed only the best stock when they know that, taking things year in and year out, about all they can hope to get by feeding the best stock is more fertiliser to enrich their land?
All it needs to make it grow properly is an abundance of fertiliser and that is easy to get on the farm.
It can only have missed specific reference in the Treaty on account of its claim to represent the fertiliser rather than the explosives industry.
It is true that they were manufactured in synthetic dye and fertiliser plants, but the explosives were none the less violent and the poison gases none the less poisonous.
The bulk of the sowing is done with a combined drill, which plants the seed and distributes artificial fertiliser at the same time.
The new settler is advised what varieties to grow in his locality, and when to grow them, what amount of fertiliser to use, and the best methods of handling his land.
This carefully-saved fertiliser is used by the Egyptian for applying to vegetables and such productions as water melons and other plants of the gourd family, which depend much for their size on stimulation.
Then he hoed a trench, a few inches deep, the whole length of the cord, and scattered fertiliserin it.
Now, Margery's father put thefertiliser on the top, and then raked it into the earth.
A five-shilling tin of fertiliser and a few sacks of Wakeley's hop mixture will be enough for the borders of a garden of an acre, unless you aim at growing everything to an abnormal size.
If he advised cuttings and a hot bed, perhaps he might be able to tell her the right temperature, and if he thought ordinary bonemeal would do for a fertiliser for it.
But, dear, your farmer can't plow frozen ground, you know; all your men can do just now is to mend fences and dump fertiliser and lime and gypsum over everything.
Fertiliser in large loads was driven into the fallow fields of the Desboros; brush and hedges and fences were being put in order.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fertiliser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
