Bulletin - Mississippi State College, Agricultural Experiment Station, Issues 1-49Agricultural Experiment Station., 1888 |
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Page 2 - ... nor more than six months, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, for each and every offense so committed.
Page 11 - ... 24. The worst method of making manure is to produce it by animals kept in open yards, since a large proportion of valuable fertilizing matters is wasted in a short time ; and after a lapse of twelve months, at least two-thirds of the substance of the manure is wasted, and only one-third, inferior in quality to an equal weight of fresh dung, is left behind.
Page 173 - Every intelligent farmer knows that fertilizer is the best which can soonest start the seed to growing and cause the largest number of seeds to sprout and grow, out of the whole number planted. This, the Natural Plant Food has done in every case. The Natural Plant Food makes more seed grow, out of the whole number planted, than any other fertilizer on earth. It makes these seeds come up much earlier and faster, grow more vigorously, withstand a drouth much longer...
Page 10 - Cart the manure on the field, spread it at once, and wait for a favorable opportunity to plow it in. In the case of clay soils, I have no hesitation to say the manure may be spread even six months before it is plowed in without losing any appreciable quantity in manuring matters.
Page 22 - Sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda, sulphate, nitrate and muriate of potash are generally held to be entirely exhausted by the crops grown the season of their application . Preferences shown by Plants for Different Forms of Food. — It is a fact of great interest and importance thai one form of a fertilizing constituent is preferred by s'ome plants to the same constituent in another form.
Page 3 - Chemist, who is required to keep an accurate account of the same, and the said certificate or record, when verified by the affidavit of the State Chemist, shall be competent evidence in any court of law or equity in this State. Sec.
Page 10 - The urine of the horse, cow, and pig, does not contain any appreciable quantity of phosphate of lime, whilst the drainings of dung heaps contain considerable quantities of this valuable fertilizer. The drainings of dungheaps, partly for this reason, are more valuable than the urine of our domestic animals, and therefore ought to be prevented by all available means from running to waste.
Page 11 - ... it in. All I wish to enforce is, that when no other choice is left but either to set up the manure in a heap in a corner of the field, or to spread it on the field without plowing it in directly, to adopt the latter plan.
Page 3 - Whether through the medium of this humus, or in a more direct manner, it renders adequate for profitable culture percentages of phosphoric acid and potash so small that, in the case of deficiency or absence of lime, the soil is practically sterile.