Excerpt from The American Agriculturist, Vol. 4: Designed to Improve the Planter, the Farmer, the Stock-Breeder, and the Horticulturist Wheat gained with 140 lbs. Of nitrate soda, bushels grain, and 424 lbs. Straw; with 112 lbs. Of nitrate potash, bushels grain, and 316 lbs. Straw; with 32 bushels of soot, bushels grain, and 68 lbs. Straw; with 336 lbs. Of salt, bushels rain, and decreased the straw 96 lbs; with 140] oi sulphate soda, the grain decreased 83 of a bushel, and increased the straw 28 lbs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.