. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. ^ year, or select inferiortomatoes for seed, or have seed melons where squash pollencan mix with them, good results are not likely to be most seeds that you save in a mouse-proof, insect-prooftin box in a dry place; seed corn on the ear should be hungup by the husks, in the attic; seed potatoes need to be keptin a dark, cold cellar, or stored in an outdoor Chapter IV FERTILIZATIOX. CULTIVATIONIRRIGATION Spare the zcccds and spoil fJie crop;Stint the food and groz^tJi zcill stop. HERE are man
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. ^ year, or select inferiortomatoes for seed, or have seed melons where squash pollencan mix with them, good results are not likely to be most seeds that you save in a mouse-proof, insect-prooftin box in a dry place; seed corn on the ear should be hungup by the husks, in the attic; seed potatoes need to be keptin a dark, cold cellar, or stored in an outdoor Chapter IV FERTILIZATIOX. CULTIVATIONIRRIGATION Spare the zcccds and spoil fJie crop;Stint the food and groz^tJi zcill stop. HERE are many kinds of fertiliz-ing materials, and all are useful insome way and in some degree;only experience and observationcan show which are best for yoursoil and your crops. In a generalway, however, I will say thatthere is no better all-purpose fer-tilizer than stable manure—all youcan get of it, say from ten to twenty tons to the it on the ground in winter and early spring,and spread it as it is hauled; plow it under, andthen broadcast (to each acre) about 400 pounds ofkainit (a commercial form of potash), and about600 pounds of finely ground bone meal; harrow thisin, and you have a very good, complete mixture whichcontains all essential elements of plant food. Or,if you desire, you can substitute muriate or sulphateof potash for the kainit, or twenty-five bushels ofunleached hardwood ashes; or phosphates or super-phosphates may be substitute
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