Manures and the Principles of Manuring

Chapter XXIII

Appendix to

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