Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Issue 36W. White, 1889 - Agriculture |
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... bone produced favorable results used in place of animal manures . This discovery was by a farmer in England , as long ago as 1750. It is tru lime , plaster and nitrate of soda were used previous to but no attempt was made to ask why ...
... bone produced favorable results used in place of animal manures . This discovery was by a farmer in England , as long ago as 1750. It is tru lime , plaster and nitrate of soda were used previous to but no attempt was made to ask why ...
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... bone dates . It soon became known that crushed bones were superior to whole ones , and in 1814 a bone mill was constructed to crush and prepare this new manure . The novelty of the use of bone manure is mentioned in the writings of ...
... bone dates . It soon became known that crushed bones were superior to whole ones , and in 1814 a bone mill was constructed to crush and prepare this new manure . The novelty of the use of bone manure is mentioned in the writings of ...
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... Bones first used in United States . 1820. First bone mill used in United States . 1837. South Carolina rock first mentioned . 1839. Liebig suggested the use of sulphuric acid to dissolve bone 1840 . Dissolved bone first used . 1868 ...
... Bones first used in United States . 1820. First bone mill used in United States . 1837. South Carolina rock first mentioned . 1839. Liebig suggested the use of sulphuric acid to dissolve bone 1840 . Dissolved bone first used . 1868 ...
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... Bone - black is a common and very desirable form of bone which yields about thirty - four per cent of phosphoric acid . It is simply bone charcoal . It is used by the sugar refiners for removing color and impurities from crude sugars ...
... Bone - black is a common and very desirable form of bone which yields about thirty - four per cent of phosphoric acid . It is simply bone charcoal . It is used by the sugar refiners for removing color and impurities from crude sugars ...
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... Bones contain two and one - half per cent of nitrog nitrate of potash contains thirteen per cent of nitrog The next nitrogenous fertilizer was the " Chili saltpet a substance mined in South America ; it contains fifteen cent of nitrogen ...
... Bones contain two and one - half per cent of nitrog nitrate of potash contains thirteen per cent of nitrog The next nitrogenous fertilizer was the " Chili saltpet a substance mined in South America ; it contains fifteen cent of nitrogen ...
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acre Amherst Analyses Analysis of Dry annual apple average Board of Agriculture Bone Boston bushels butter Calcium oxide cattle clover cob meal consumed dur corn and cob corn meal Cost of feed cost per lb cows cranberry creamery crop Crude ash cultivation dogs dollars dressed pork dressed weight gained dry matter England ensilage equal to dry Experiment Station farm farmers feed consumed FEEDING PERIODS feet Fertilizer fodder articles fruit gluten meal Grange grass Guano hundred inches Insoluble matter irrigation July land live weight gained Magnesium oxide manure Mass Massachusetts Middlesex North Moisture at 100 muriate of potash Non-nitrogenous extract matter Nutritive Ratio phosphoric acid plant food plats Potassium oxide potatoes production protein nitrogenous matter raised RAWSON scabby season Secretary seed Sept sheep skim milk Sodium oxide soil Sugar Beet Superphosphate tion Total amount weight of animal wheat bran Worcester yield
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