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BETTER FRUIT 



February, IQ2I 



Simply because the bacteria could not, 

 or did not, work fast enough to render 

 "available" in sufficient amount this 

 potash and phosphate in the soil. 



One might as well put brick dust in 

 the soil as to put available potash and 

 phosphoric acid there, expecting re- 

 sults, unless, at the same time, he is ab- 

 solutely sure that the tree is fed a suffi- 

 cient amount of nitrogen. Nitrogen 

 forms the wood structure and healthy 

 leafage of the tree. The leaf of the 

 tree is its stomach. It is in the leaf that 

 the chemical changes take place in the 

 plant food drawn up. How foolish 

 therefore to experiment on orchards 

 with potash and phosphoric acid alone, 

 if the tree has not sufficient digestive 

 ability to "eat" it. One might as well 

 place food before a sick man whose 



stomach is in no condition to receive it. 

 On the other hand, a tree can be fed 

 up on nitrogen and given stomach ca- 

 pacity like unto that of the fat man of 

 the circus and yet there may be no 

 fruit because the phosphate had not 

 been transformed into available phos- 

 phoric acid and the silicate, or some 

 other form of potash had not been 

 transformed into the soluble carbon- 

 ate of potash. Place the fat man behind 

 iron bars and then a plate of food on 

 the outside, where, perchance, he may 

 see it and smell it, but cannot get it, and 

 what good will it do him? 



I believe most thoroughly in a three 

 powered fertilizer, carrying nitrogen, 

 phosphoric acid and soluble potash, 

 varied in ratios to suit the needs of the 

 tree as indicated by its behavior, ap- 



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pearance, fruitage and coloring of that 

 fruitage. 



Mr. Leonard Olive of Chelan took me 

 over his orchard, explaining that he 

 had used considerable barnyard ma- 

 nure; that his trees appeared to have 

 plenty of wood growth and healthy 

 leafage, but he was not getting fruit. I 

 prescribed an organic fertilizer of 1 per 

 cent nitrogent, 8 per cent phosphoric 

 acid, 10 per cent potash. I am just in 

 receipt of a letter stating that he had a 

 wonderful crop of fine quality apples 

 and splendidly colored. 



Mr. Rudilph Etzkorn, Jr., of Monitor, 

 had a tree, 15 years old, that for the 

 past eight years had never in any sea- 

 son borne more than five boxes of ap- 

 ples which were small and of poor 

 quality. He had used barnyard manure, 

 had cultivated it, but to no avail. The 

 tree appeared "sick." He used an or- 

 ganic, or animal products, fertilizer of 

 the anlysis of 6 per cent nitrogen, 10 

 per cent phosphoric acid, 4 per cent 

 potash. Recently a photograph was 

 taken of this tree, showing 20 boxes of 

 the finest "Jonathans" I ever saw, under 

 the tree, already picked from it, while 

 there were eight more boxes, estimated, 

 on the tree — 28 boxes. 



Now, if the "soil analysis" theory 

 were tenable, humus and plenty of ni- 

 trogen were all this tree needed, and 

 all that Mr. Leonard Olive's trees 

 needed and all that a host of the trees 

 of others needed, since according to the 

 "soil anlysis" theory "there is an abun- 

 dance of phosphate and potash in the 

 soil, sufficient for years, and all that 

 is needed is an abundance of nitrogen 

 and a cover crop." 



I have gone over orchards in Oregon 

 and Washington and time after time I 

 have seen trees and sometimes almost 

 the entire orchard — and such I have 

 seen in and around Yakima — that had a 

 lovely cover crop and beautiful green 

 trees, but without apples on them. Is 

 it because the trees get tired and have 

 to rest a year, in accordance with an- 

 other one of those outworn theories'? 

 Surely, if there is an abundance of 

 potash in the soil, etc., all they need is 

 nitrogen. Well, do the trees look like 

 they were not getting nitrogen? 



Yes, there is potash and phosphate in 

 the soil, but nitrogen does not render 

 it available. It only enables the tree to 

 "eat" these elements of plant food, 

 when it is available. The bacteria ren- 

 der these elements available, but they 

 work slowly, hence the "skip" crop. A 

 well balanced organic fertilizer invig- 

 orates and multiplies the bacterial life; 

 it supplements, in abundance, available 

 plant food, while these micro-organ- 

 isms are working to render still more 

 of the unavailable available. 



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