bonedust

It is much more easily handled and applied; it is a better substance for mixing with other manures, such as bonedust or ashes, for instance; it has a better physical effect on the soil; and is nearly free from weed seeds which abound in cattle manure.

Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore 1875

Superphosphate has proved superior to bonedust or basic slag; sulphate of potash has not increased the yield, while nitrogenous fertilisers, such as dried blood or sulphate of ammonia, have proved either useless or harmful.

Wheat Growing in Australia Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

We are now sending bonedust and other artificial composts to Jamaica and our other islands in the West Indies, in order to restore the soil, impoverished by successive sugar-cane crops, while the most valuable fertilizer, providentially provided on the other side of the isthmus, remains entirely neglected.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

The gloomy fortress was no longer constructed of stone; it was formed of skulls joined like blocks of stone by a mortar of bonedust.

The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

On these layers of pulp and top soil lime or bonedust may be sprinkled.

Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore 1875

If it cannot, then the soil should be mixed with some thoroughly decayed and dried cattle manure, mixed with bonedust, and if it is desired to rush the plant forward, a slight dressing of nitrate of potash might subsequently be applied.

Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore 1875

I find that if to 83 parts of the soil I added 1 part of bonedust, 12 parts of castor cake, 2 parts of potash salt, and 2 parts of lime, I should make up a compost equal to good English farmyard manure, and at but a slightly increased cost, which would be more than covered by the special physical and other advantages arising from the use of kemmannu.

Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore 1875

It must not be mixed with bonedust, oil-cake, or potash salts, but should be put down some weeks before these manures.

Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore 1875

My manager had ordered some top soil to be laid on one of the roads in the plantation, and on this bonedust was scattered, the intention being that each basketful of top soil should contain a certain proportion of the bonedust.

Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore 1875

With the cattle manure or top soil, bonedust and white castor cake should be applied at the rate of 8 cwt. an acre, and 5 cwt. of the former to 3 cwt. of the latter; and, if the planter is in a hurry for immediate results, he might put down a small dressing of nitrate of soda -- say 112 lbs. an acre.

Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore 1875