. Biggle berry book [microform] : small fruit facts from bud to box conserved into understandable form. Fruit-culture. 14 BKiCiLK 15KRKY JiOOK MAKIN(J A HECJINNING 15 F'or fill] details on this topic I suggest that you read Chapter IV of the Biggie (iarden Book (published uniform with this volume), and write to the Secretary, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, I). C, and ask for Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 44, 192, 245, 257 and 278. In this way you will learn all about nitrogen, phosphoric acid, potash, nitrate of soda,. IF MANURE IS APPLIHl) IN FURROWS, hP. SURF, IT IS WELL MIXKI) WITH
. Biggle berry book [microform] : small fruit facts from bud to box conserved into understandable form. Fruit-culture. 14 BKiCiLK 15KRKY JiOOK MAKIN(J A HECJINNING 15 F'or fill] details on this topic I suggest that you read Chapter IV of the Biggie (iarden Book (published uniform with this volume), and write to the Secretary, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, I). C, and ask for Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 44, 192, 245, 257 and 278. In this way you will learn all about nitrogen, phosphoric acid, potash, nitrate of soda,. IF MANURE IS APPLIHl) IN FURROWS, hP. SURF, IT IS WELL MIXKI) WITH SOIL BEFORE PLANTING lime, humus, cover crops, nitrogenous crops, liquid manure, etc. (ienerally sjjcaking, I will say that there is no better all-purpose fertilizer than stable manure. Haul it on the ground in winter and early spring, and spread it as it is hauled ; plow it under, and then broadcast (to each acre) about 400 pounds of kainit (a commercial form of potash), and about 600 pounds of finely-ground bone meal ; harrow this in, 1 .1 and you have a very good, complete mixture which contains all essential elements of plant food. Or, if you desire, you can substitute muriate or sulphate of potash for the kainit, or twenty five bushels of unleached hardwood ashes ; or phosphates or super- phosphates may be substituted for the bone. If stable manure can not be obtained and if there is sufficient humus (decayed vegetal/le matter) in the soil, buy a high-grade, complete, ready-mixed, commercial fertilizer the best you can get, not the cheapest- and broadcast it on plowed land at the rate of al)()ut 800 pounds to the acre ; then harrow it in. FLANMN(i AM) Lavincj-Out. — Measure thc land accurately. Then figure out a definite i)lanting plan, on ])aper, indicating exactly where everything is to go, and the distance between rows. For con- \enience draw the plan to scale —say one-sixteenth inch to the foot—and endeaxor to have long rows rather than short ones. Therefore, run
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