The potato; a practical treatise on the potato, its characteristics, planting, cultivation, harvesting, storing, marketing, insects, and diseases and their remedies, etc., etc

Samuel Fraser

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UNIVERSITY FARM SB211 LIBRARYOP CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY LAST DATEIS DUE ON THETHIS BOOK BELOWSTAMPED 81924H SEP 3 '93a MAY 2 4 '49 5m-10,'22 u >J y -bushel crop potatoes tain 8 1 of ofpounds nitrogen, 30.6 pounds phosphoric and of New Yorkacid, 79 pounds potash. Taking 49 the chemist found that the surface inchessoils, eight 3 acre :contained, per . for . .Nitrogen 3,053 pounds, enough 38 crops " " " " acid,Phosphoric 4,219 137 " " " " Potash.... 20716,317 2Va. Bui. Cornell Bui.92, p. 107. (N. Y.) 130, p. 157. THK POTATO40 such soils as these of fertilizersUpon applications in somecontaining phosphoric acid, and, cases, potash, have been to be mostfound, by experience, profitable a condition of affairs which could never be ascertained from the It is seldom that the increase inanalyses. of bears to the ofyield crop any relationship quantity the fertilizers Without either fertilizers orapplied. but of bushelsmanure, given good tillage, yields 300 of acre have been obtained for four suc-potatoes per 1 cessive on the same of land.years piece The amount of removed isplant-food by any crop and is obtainedfrom all of the soilwhereversmall, parts roots extend. Most soils contain certain sufficient plant- food to the demands of thereonsupply any growncrop for an indefinite of time. To maintainperiod crop pro- duction at a attention must beprofitable point, paid to factors other than the ofsupply plant-food.

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• Potato

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 11
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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UNIVERSITY FARM
SB211LIBRARYOP CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY
LAST DATEIS DUE ON THETHIS BOOK
BELOWSTAMPED
81924H
SEP 3 '93a
MAY 2 4 '49
5m-10,'22u
>J y
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11THE POTATO
A PRACTICAL TREATISEONTHE POTATO,
ITS CUL-CHARACTERISTICS, PLANTING,
TIVATION, HARVESTING, STORING,
AND DISEASESMARKETING, INSECTS,
AND THEIR ETC.REMEDIES, ETC.,
SAMUEL FRASER
Assistant CornellAgronomist, University
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
ORANGE COMPANYJUDD
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COMPANYBY ORANGE JUDD
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