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gen fertilizers, including very heavy applications of stable 

 manure, gave too much growth and an inferior quality of 

 fruit." For western New York, L. J. Farmer recom- 

 mends 500 to 2000 pounds of a 4-10-10 fertilizer (that is, 

 one analyzing 4 per cent nitrogen, 10 per cent phosphoric 

 acid and 10 per cent of potash). In the market gardens 

 near Boston, very heavy applications are made. In 

 1908, Wilfrid Wheeler, of Concord, Massachusetts, recom- 

 mended, "At the first feeding, which should come about 

 two weeks after setting, use tankage analyzing 7 per 

 cent of nitrogen at the rate of one ton per acre. Follow 

 this two weeks later with either ground bone or bone 

 black at the rate of 1800 pounds per acre. One week 

 later, apply one ton of wood ashes per acre. Another 

 application of bone, and later one of bone black, will 

 greatly help the plants." In addition, he often used 200 

 pounds of nitrate of soda in early spring. These recom- 

 mendations are for hill plants in market gardens, when a 

 yield of about 20,000 quarts to the acre is expected. 



Middle Atlantic states. 



In 1901 E. B. Voorhees, summarizing the results of four 

 years' experiments in New Jersey, advised the use of 

 500 to 800 pounds of a mixture of raw ground bone, 

 acid phosphate and muriate of potash, equal parts by 

 weight, to be applied broadcast before the plants are set ; 

 followed by fifty to sixty pounds of nitrate of soda or 

 dried blood before they start to grow, and a top-dressing 

 of 100 pounds of dried blood in early spring. At Ham- 

 mondton, New Jersey, the growers now use 500 to 1000 

 pounds an acre of a 5-8-10 fertilizer. Another popular 

 mixture is 400 pounds of dried blood, 1200 pounds of 

 bone meal, 400 pounds of sulfate of potash, applied at the 



