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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 |
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