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BETTER FRUIT 



September, 1920 



Service Rendered by Our Fertilizer and Stock Food Factories 



By W. R. Lebo, Secretary Marine Products Co., Inc., Tacoma, Washington 



The functions of our factories are many. 

 They serve as storage and collection depots for 

 ammoniates, phosphates, potash, guanos and 

 animal and other by-products, brought together 

 from all points of the compass. The materials 

 brought together under a common roof are 

 stored, ground, mixed, screened and handled 

 with specially designed labor saving machin- 

 ery. Without this treatment many of these in- 

 gredients would be a total loss to agriculture. 



CHEMICAL CONTROL 

 The men in charge of our plants are skilled 

 in chemistry and engineering and they must 

 necessarily have a definite knowledge of the 

 chemical reactions that are constantly occurr- 

 ing throughout the entire processing. Ability 

 to judge the chemical combinations in advance 

 so that there are no false moves with resultant 

 failures of manufactured goods is a further 

 requisite. Goods for both fertilizer and stock 

 feed are sampled, analyzed and classed safely. 

 Balanced ration stock feed and formulas are 

 calculated in advance and the combinations 

 resultant must check to a nicety in order to 

 comply with the State fertilizer and feeding 

 laws which require guaranteed analysis. 



CONSERVATION 



Practical conservation of the highest order 

 is Ihe result of our routine control work and 

 experimentation. The happy cobmination of 

 technical and practical men in our personnel 

 has saved, and is saving thousands of tons 

 of fish offal in Alaska, packing house offal and 

 other by-products in the Northwest, to be fur- 

 ther used in the conservation of the land. One 

 acre well fertilized is often worth two acres 

 unfertilized in actual production. Poultry and 

 live stock when fed a balanced ration com- 

 bining protein from an animal organic source, 

 phosphates from bone, with a grain ration, 

 show increased production and lower feeding 

 costs. 



FIELD WORK 



Close observation of the crops grown in Cali- 

 fornia, Oregon and Washington, by trained 

 men who cover every district several times 

 yearly, make it possible for us to carry on the 

 most thorough investigation of fertilizers and 

 their results. Extensive experiments are being 

 carried on in a practical way throughout the 

 Pacific Njrlhwest. The West Side Gardens 

 located near Tacoma, use approximately 

 SI 5,000.00 per year of our special formulas on 

 their two hundred odd acre farm, where we 

 have carried on the most exhaustive practical 

 research work ever attempted on the Pacific 

 Coast. 



"PuyallupBrancTBerryFertilizer 



"TWO - TEN - TWO" 



A concentrated balanced ration berry pro- 

 ducing fertilizer, especially designed to meet 

 the needs of berry production in the wet 

 climate of Ihe Pacific Northwest. Constant ex- 

 periments and close contact with the growers 

 have made "Puvallup Brand" berry fertilizer 

 possible. The theory of this fertilizer is, that 



" is based on largely organic materials, which 



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 represent the 

 product' 



FERTILIZED WITH CHICKEN MANURE 

 The upper vieyv shows raspberries fertilized with chicken manure, 

 lizer used. The owner, Mr. Stevenson, at Puyallup, will fertilize 

 year. This place adjoins the on 



are timed to break down as the result of bac- 

 terial activity, exerting a continuity of fer- 

 tilizer effort on the berry vines. The action 

 of organic fertilizers in the soil is ideal from 

 the standpoint of utility. Applying "Puyallup 

 Brand" berry fertilizer will obtain for the 

 grower, first an increase of organic matter con- 

 tent with its effect on water retaining capacity, 

 improved mechanical condition, addition of 

 bacteria, and increased bacterial activity. The 

 bacteria attack particles of meat, blood and 

 bone, thus transforming the nitrogen to am- 

 monia, in which form nitrates are taken up by 

 the roots, the form in which most of the nitro- 

 gen is absorbed. 



In cold weather the bacteria are not active 

 and at such time as the plant is not actively 

 feeding, the plant food from organic material 

 is not available and for this reason does not 

 leach out of the soil. On the other hand in- 

 organic materials, such as nitrate of soda, are 

 soluble in any kind of weather and readily 

 leach beyond the roots of the tree, oftentimes 

 leaving behind an injurious residue harmful 

 to the plant. By using a natural product, 

 something once a part of a living organism, 

 are allowing nature's forces to take care of the 

 fertilizing in a natural way, you need never 

 worry about what day you must fertilize to 

 get the best results. 



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The New Growth Bears the Fruit 



FERTILIZED WITH "PUYALLUP BRAND" 



<;. Hamainshi place adjoins Ihe berry patch in upper picture. Our Major Newsom is over Six feet 



tall and his position illustrates the splendid growth received as a result of "Puyallup Brand 



berry fertilizer which was applied in the fall. 



nd raspberries the suckers 

 wood necessary for fruit 

 .^ are essential, but if too 

 odueed they shade the fruit and 

 make harvesting difficult. Here again new 

 wood growth must be controlled. The run- 

 ners represent the new wood of strawberries. 

 Those produced by this year's mother plants 

 are destined to bear the crop of next year. 

 Here the fertility problem consists in getting a 

 sullicieit number of well rooted runners, but 

 avoiding such an excessive number as to make 

 them crjwd each other and function as so 

 many weeds 

 PLANT FOOD CONTROLS WOOD GROWTH 

 The kind, form and amount of plant food 

 available for the use of the plant control the 

 wood growth. 



Fertilizer Is A Chain 



The three links may be termed Nitrogen, 

 Phosphoric Acid and Potash. The limiting fac- 

 tor in the growth of a crop may be one ele- 

 ment, any of the three. The plant food ration 

 is no stronger than its weakest link. 



NITROGEN is the stem and leaf producer. 

 It produces the green, rank growth of the 

 plant and gives to foliage a healthy green 

 color. 



PHOSPHORIC ACID hastens the maturity 

 and increases production of fruit. 



POTASH strengthens the fiber of the wood 

 growth and aids in producing healthy disease 

 resistant plants and fruit, and above all pro- 

 duces hard shipping quality in the berry. 



Note: — Where the grower is getting sufficient 

 cane growth and wishes to increase shipping 

 quality, we substitute a two-ten-four analysis. 

 increasing the formula by 2 per cent, of potash 

 to cover this condition. 



PLANT FOOD MUST BE BALANCED 

 Sickly and weakened condition of growth in- 

 dicates'lack of nitrogen. But nitrogen unbal- 

 anced by the other food usually proves a very 

 poor remedy. If the plant food ration is out 

 of balance 'new wood delays in ripening, is 

 subject to winter killing, and the excessive 

 grow th of leaves shades the fruit and leads to 

 poor quality. Phosphoric acid and potash, in 

 combination with nitrogen, remedies this con- 

 dition. The best fertility practice is to use 

 "Puya'lup Brand" berry fertilizer which grows 

 enough new wood for a full set of fruit, but 

 which also luips to strengthen it, to prevent 

 w inter killing. 



CLOVER IN THE BERRY FIELD 

 Cane berries will eventually be planted 

 seven to eight feet apart ill the rows and B 

 Legume grown through the center. This will 

 be disked in to allow of ready access between 

 Ihe rows. The actual cane row may be clean 

 cultivated. In this manner much of the nitro- 

 gen required can be secured by Ihe legume 

 which will also furnish organic matter and a 

 special phosphoric acid and potash fertilizer 



