286 State Horticultural Society. 



we make up special formulas accordingly. To give you one illustration 

 of our remedying appai'ent defects, will say that we prescribed a fer- 

 tilizer for Mr. George T. Frost, of Porterville and Exeter, California, 

 who said that he had one orchard in which the leaves, as soon as the 

 cool weather set in, turned a mottled color, which he considered was an 

 unhealthy sign. We put up a fertilizer for this, which, l^esides the 

 nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, contained five per cent sulphate 

 of iron, and we have a letter from Mr. Frost, dated iNTovember 21, 1899, 

 from which we quote the following: 



"I applied your fertilizer in February and March. The groves 

 are showing the benefit now. I say 'now' for the reason that, as I told 

 you, some parts of the grove, on light soil, would show mottled or yel- 

 low leaves as soon as the cold weather sets in. This bas been the case 

 for the past three years, and at this writing it is hard to find any of this 

 trouble through the groves on this soil. I have nothing to credit the 

 improvement to excepting the fertilizer applied during February and 

 March." 



We have several good letters from our California customers regard- 

 ing their experience which we will publish in the near future in a pam- 

 phlet, and shall be glad to send your association some of these pamphlets 

 when printed. 



ISTow, we do not ask you, or aiiy class of farmers to take our word 

 for all these things. But we would ask you to give this matter of fer- 

 tilization your close consideration; and we hope that this paper will be 

 the means of getting you sufficiently interested to make at least some 

 small experiments for your next crop. As our fertilizers are not "stim- 

 ulants," they should be applied along in the winter to get best re- 

 sults. The quantity we recommend for fruit trees is one-half pound per 

 tree for each year of age, that is, on a ten-year-old tree use five pounds. 



The best way to apply it is with a fertilizer drill, and drill it into 

 the soil from eight to twelve inches deep — not close to the trunk of the 

 tree, but fully two feet from the tree. The roots will find the fertilizer 

 even though not put very near to the roots. 



For small fruits we recommend al:>out 400 pounds per acre. Of 

 course our formulas are for small fruits, such as strawberries, black- 



