 | Wilbur Olin Atwater - 1879 - 198 pages
...briefly this : The chief office of fertilizers is to supply the plant-food that our crops need and our soils fail to furnish. It is not good economy to pay high prices for materials which the soil may yield in abundance, but it is good economy to supply the lacking ones in the cheapest way. The most... | |
 | 1882 - 954 pages
...ingredients of plant-food were most needed by their soils and crops. The principle upon which they are based is briefly this: The chief office of fertilizers is...yield in abundance or which may be supplied by the carefully husbanded manures of the farm, but it is good economy to supply the lacking ones in the cheapest... | |
 | 1882 - 954 pages
...principle upon which they are based is briefly this: The chief office of fertilizers is to supply tho plant-food that our crops need and soils fail to furnish....soil may be made to yield in abundance or which may bo supplied by the carefully husbanded manures of the farm, bat it is good economy to supply the lacking... | |
 | Wilbur Olin Atwater - 1883 - 204 pages
...phosphates, bone manures, potash salts, and most other commercial fertilizers are chiefly useful. 8. It is not good economy to pay high prices for materials which our soils may themselves furnish, but it is good economy to supply the lacking ones in the cheapest... | |
 | New Jersey. Board of Agriculture - 1883 - 680 pages
...phosphates, bone manures, potash salts, and most other commercial fertilizers are chiefly useful. 7. It is not good economy to pay high prices for materials which our soils may themselves furnish, but it is good economy to supply the lacking ones in the cheapest... | |
 | Massachusetts Horticultural Society - 1888 - 758 pages
...nevertheless very profitable. But the same fertilizers in other cases may bring little or no return. 13. It is not good economy to pay high prices for materials which our soils themselves may furnish, but it is good economy to supply the lacking ones in the cheapest... | |
 | Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station - 1889 - 1114 pages
...potash salts, guano, nitrate of soda, and most other commercial fertilizers are chiefly useful. 5. It is not good economy to pay high prices for materials which the soil may itself furnish, but it is good economy to supply the lacking ones in the cheapest way. 6. The only... | |
 | Frank W. Sempers - 1893 - 238 pages
...produced on the farm, and to depend upon artificial fertilizers only to furnish what more is needed. It is not good economy to pay high prices for materials which the soil may itself yield, but it is good economy to supply the lacking ones in the cheapest way. The rule in the... | |
 | Maine Agricultural Experiment Station - 1903 - 240 pages
...produced on the farm, and to depend upon artificial fertilizers only to furnish what more is needed. It is not good economy to pay' high prices for materials which the soil may itself yield, but it is good economy to supply the lacking ones in the cheapest way. The rule in the... | |
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... on the farm, and to depend upon artificial fertilizers only to furnish what more is needed. It is not good economy to pay high prices for materials which the soil may itself yield, but it is good economy to supply the lacking ones in the cheapest... 
