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ers has become so great that all are compelled to 

 be at least partially honest, and several prepare a 

 special fertilizer for cauliflower and cabbage which 

 works admirably. Our best growers all use Grer- 

 man potash salts, or Kainit, about 13 per cent, 

 actual potash, one ton to the acre; or sulphate of 

 potash, equal to 27 per cent, actual potash; or muri- 

 ate of potash, equal, to 45 per cent, actual potash, 

 about one half a ton to the acre. The relative cost 

 per ton, of these is $16.00 for Kainit, §3S.OO for 

 sulphate and S45.00 for muriate — these are pres- 

 ent prices, but the market is subject to fluctuations. 

 These should be evenly applied broadcast and 

 turned under at the spring plowing, and from one 

 half a ton to one ton of fertilizer to the acre should 

 be applied in the same manner on the surface, and 

 harrowed in at the last preparation of the soil. Of 

 late many have been using fish guano, which is the 

 scrap or flesh and bone refuse from the Menhaden oil- 

 rendering establishments, in connection with potash 

 salts, with excellent results : in fact Captain Edward 

 Hawkins, of Jamesport, one of our most successful 

 growers, uses nothing else, applying one ton of 

 each to the acre. Very good cauliflowers have been 

 grown by opening furrows, placing the fertilizer 

 therein, and covering so as to form ridges; but I 

 advise broadcast manuring and flat cultivation for 

 this crop, as I am fully convinced that one acre in 



