Part 3 — APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XXIII.
Reading edition
NOTE I. (p. 526).
Experiments on the Manuring of Beans.
Experiments with beans carried out at the Highland and Agricultural Society's Experiment Station at Pumpherston, showing the effect of potash:—
No. of Bushels dressed
plots. Kind of manure. grain, per acre.
27. No manure 2-1/2
12. Phosphate (bone-ash) 5-1/6
18. Nitrate 6-1/4
21. Phosphate and nitrate 5-1/3
22. Potash 26-1/2
17. Potash and phosphate 42-1/3
10. Potash, phosphate, and nitrate 45-1/2
38. Potash, phosphate, nitrate, and gypsum 51