Probably one of the best fertilisers is genuine farmyard manure from stall-fed cattle, for it contains phosphates, alkalies, and silicates in available forms.
This crop should therefore have farmyard dung, or the special potash fertilisers in adequate quantity.
Both these fertilisers should be dug into the soil some time before the crop is planted or seed sown--superphosphate at the rate of two to three pounds per square rod; basic slag in larger amount, five to six pounds per square rod.
LEEKS require the same fertilisers as Onions, but will need little or no nitrate if good dung is used.
Where, however, forcing manures may have been employed in too large a quantity, an application of potash (in the form of kainit or sulphate of potash) and phosphatic fertilisers should be given to counteract the effect of the nitrogen.
Every fresh exposure of the soil to the air, and especially to frost and snow, is as the opening of a new mine of fertilisers for the service of those plants on which man depends for his subsistence.
One of the bestfertilisers of the soil is made by saturating charred wood with urine.
In this respect, also, must be mentioned the use of stable and barnyard manure, in which pests such as insect larvae, woodlice and eelworms are introduced; artificial fertilisers are therefore safer.
As in farmyard manure, so in guano: we must look to the complexity of the composition of both these fertilisers in order to fully estimate their worth.
The above statement as to the behaviour of the different fertilisers when applied to the soil, has a not unimportant bearing on the quantities in which they may safely be respectively applied.
It would seem, further, that the influence of nitrogenous fertilisers on cereals is to increase the percentage of nitrogen in the grain, but that they have no such influence in the case of leguminous crops.
This they attributed to the fact that the supply of mineralfertilisers in the straw of the farmyard manure is largely in excess of the supply of nitrogen.
The so-called "ripening" of various organic fertilisers is effected, we now know, entirely through the agency of bacteria of this class.
This, as we have just noticed, is greater in the case of the sulphate than in the case of muriate, and it has been observed that certain other fertilisers seem to exercise a considerable influence in hindering their fixation.
As no fertilisers are used, these roots and branches at best make a very poor substitute.
Especially when manures or fertilisers have been used, bedding up is generally adopted.
The law diminishing returns is in some instances beginning to apply to the production of food, which in the past has been plentiful without fertilisers and under a very wasteful and simple system.
It is no good telling peasants who have not ploughs or reapers or who cannot get fertilisers because their railroad has no locomotives, that a new line running on their side of the new frontier will be built ten or fifteen years hence.
Its absence means collapse of everything--of transport, of the getting of food to the towns, of furnishing the machinery and fertilisers by which food can be produced in sufficient quantity.
So Red Shirt and Clown were fishing fertilisers with vim and vigor.
If it was a mental consolation to fish fertilisers on the sea, have goruki for Russian literature, or to pose a favorite geisha beneath pine tree, it would be quite as much a mental consolation to eat dempura noodle and swallow dango.
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