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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5 GEORGE v.. A. 1915 

 Fertilizer Experiment with Potatoes. — Concluded. 



FEETILIZING YOUNG TREES AT PLANTING TIME. 



In order to detennine whether commercial fertilizers '^.nn be used to advantage at 

 planting time to give tlie tree a better start, and also to detennine whether such 

 fertilizers, if applied in large quantities, would cause injury to the tree, a series of 

 (!xperiments were started using Ribston, Milwaukee, Stark, and Eoxbury Eusset (Non- 

 pareil) apple trees 2 years old, of uniform grade from- the same source. Two trees 

 of each variety were used in an experiment and fifteen experiments, as follows, were 



Kentville. 



