Food for Plants (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Food for Plants<br><br>This is the twelfth edition of Food for Plants and, after repeated and extended revisions, the work has come to have a standard place in our American farm literature. It nows includes results of original investigations and experiments on Highlands Experimental Farms, made under the personal direction of the late Professor E. B. Voorhees.<br><br>The main purpose of all the within recorded experiments has been to demonstrate the value of Nitrate of Soda in the scheme of rational fertilization on a practical scale. The investigations have covered more particularly the questions of amount of Nitrate and other chemicals to be employed, time of application for most profitable results and practical methods for the preparation of grass lands and the harvesting of the hay crop.<br><br>These recorded experiments set forth the field work intended as demonstrations in farm practice of what may be accomplished by the rational use of Nitrate of Soda under average farm conditions in a typical dairy section of New York State.<br><br>The earlier results have appeared from time to time in former editions of "Food for Plants," "Grass Growing for Profit," and "Growing Timothy Hay for Market" - all practical farm books of value, based on actual scientific and sound practical data. Studies having been made of methods of crop growing, from the preparation of the land to handling and marketing the crops, it is believed that these volumes have unique and unusual value.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.