. Kellogg's great crops of small fruits : and how to grows them. Nurseries (Horticulture) Michigan Three Rivers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs. R. M KELLOGG'S GREAT CROPS OF where the plants can use it. Before plowing rake off all coarse straw so that capillary attraction which draws water from the lower subsoil shall not be cut off. Water will not pass up through a mass of straw if plowed under. Be very careful about this. If you can't get stable manure apply broadcast from 400 to 800 pounds of pure, fine ground raw bone meal and not over fifty bushels per acre of unleached hard- woo
. Kellogg's great crops of small fruits : and how to grows them. Nurseries (Horticulture) Michigan Three Rivers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs. R. M KELLOGG'S GREAT CROPS OF where the plants can use it. Before plowing rake off all coarse straw so that capillary attraction which draws water from the lower subsoil shall not be cut off. Water will not pass up through a mass of straw if plowed under. Be very careful about this. If you can't get stable manure apply broadcast from 400 to 800 pounds of pure, fine ground raw bone meal and not over fifty bushels per acre of unleached hard- wood ashes and cultivate in before plowing. If com mercial fertilizers are used select those rich in potash and phosphoric acid which are always conducive to fruit The Floater. The Roller.—You cannot properly fit land with- out a roller or floater. The plow and harrow leave the ground too loose and do not sufficiently exclude free air and capillary action will not bring the water up from below. The particles of earth must be brought near together. If you do not have a roller, take three two-inch planks about seven feet long and one foot wide; bolt or spike the edges together like the siding on a house, and hitch a chain to each end and load it with as much stone as the team can draw, and go over the surface. On many soils it will do better work than a roller. Do not attempt to set plants in loose earth. HOW PLANTS FEED. About ninety-five per cent of plants by weight comes from the atmosphere and only five per cent from the soil. There are about sixty ingredients in the soil which plants use but they get along very well if only sixteen of them are present. These ingredi- ents are found in abundance in all friable soils, except potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen which must be replenished by manures. These foods must be dissolved in the soil water and are sucked up by the little hair roots and passed from cell to cell through the center of the plant to the leaves by a
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