Superphosphate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUPERPHOSPHATE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• acid phosphate
• a fertilizer made by treating phosphate rock with sulphuric or phosphoric acid.
• An acid phosphate.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an acid phosphate

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Words that contain SUPERPHOSPHATE

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How to use SUPERPHOSPHATE in a sentence

• All the farmer knows is, that his grass and his corn grow better for the superphosphate.
• Superphosphate of lime mixed with a small amount of nitrate of soda and forked into the ground is also a fine manure, but is more expensive than that made from lime and salt.
• On light soils apply in spring four pounds of superphosphate of lime and two pounds of sulphate of potash.
• One thing is certain, since that time the use of superphosphate has been greatly on the increase.
• The superphosphate is not mixed with the wheat, but it drops into the same tubes with the wheat, and is sown with it in the same drill mark.
• In this way, the superphosphate is deposited where the roots of the young plants can immediately find it.
• The boys want to go fishing! This is, undoubtedly, one reason why superphosphate is not used so generally with us for corn as for wheat, barley, and oats.
• We are now buying a very good superphosphate, made from Carolina rock phosphate, for about one and a half cents per pound.
• I do not say that two hundred pounds of superphosphate per acre, drilled in with the seed, will always accomplish this object.
• The application of superphosphate, unquestionably in many cases, prevents much loss of nitric acid.
• They carry superphosphate at a low rate, knowing that its use will increase the freight the other way.
• It is undoubtedly true that a dressing of superphosphate, sown on a block of nursery trees, will do little good.
• For trees, therefore, it would seem desirable to apply the superphosphate before they are planted, and plow it under.
• Such land requires little more than thorough tillage, with perhaps two hundred pounds of superphosphate per acre, to enable it to produce good grain crops.
• Years ago, I was laughed at because I used guano and superphosphate.
• The first two plots, 0 and 1, had been dressed, the one with superphosphate, the other with potash, soda, and magnesia.
• The next six plots had received very heavy dressings of ammonia-salts, with superphosphate, potash, soda, and magnesia.
• In other words, the ammonia alone gives 9 bushels per acre more than this large dressing of superphosphate, potash, etc.
• Now these mixed mineral manures contain potash, soda, magnesia, and superphosphate.
• And I see where superphosphate was used without any potash, soda, and magnesia, but with the same amount of ammonia, the yield is nearly 46 bushels per acre.
• But you must recollect that this is pure superphosphate made from burnt bones.
• The superphosphate was a good article, similar to that used in Mr.
• In 1859, superphosphate of lime was used alone on plot 3, and has been continued ever since.
• Superphosphate of lime would be likely to prove advantageous in favoring the early growth and maturity of the crop.
• The superphosphate of lime, although a very superior article, and estimated at cost price, in no case paid for itself.
• It was for this reason, that sulphate of ammonia, and a purely mineral superphosphate of lime, were used in the above experiments.
• A turnip-crop grown with superphosphate, can get from the soil much more nitrogen than a crop of wheat.
• To the market gardener, or to a farmer who manures heavily common turnips drilled in with superphosphate will prove a valuable crop.
• I cannot too earnestly recommend the use of superphosphate as a manure for turnips.
• In other words, we must use Peruvian guano, or nitrate of soda and superphosphate, or bone-dust, or some other substance that will furnish available nitrogen and phosphoric acid.
• No manure was used, except the superphosphate and sulphate of ammonia, and coal and wood ashes from the house.
• Superphosphate was applied at the same rate, but instead of sowing it broadcast, I aimed to get it as near the seed or the roots of plants as possible.
• Hooker, once sowed, at my suggestion, some sulphate of ammonia and superphosphate on part of a block of nursery trees, and he could not perceive that these manures did any good.
• Those who haul stable-manure, usually use bone-dust or superphosphate to a greater or less extent.
• Calcium superphosphate and acid calcium phosphate very frequently contain arsenic, and as the cheap commercial qualities are often used there is danger in this direction.

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