FERTILIZERS FOR VEGETABLES. 



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word for The Canadian Horticulturist and 

 asRed how many of the market gardeners 

 were subscribers. 



Mr. A. E. Bates, Hamilton, emphasized 

 the benefit the tomato growers' association 

 had been, and said steps had been taken to 

 extend over the province. They had been 

 supplying four canning factories with about 

 200,000 bushels. As to protection, he had 

 at one time sent celery to Toronto, for which 

 he got 70 to 75 cents a dozen, but had been 

 driven from the market by the ]^Iichigan 

 growers, who sold it at 30 cents. 



After some further discussion it was 

 unanimously agreed to form a Provincial 

 Market Gardeners' Association, the plan of 

 organization to be arranged by the commit- 

 tee already mentioned. The gathering 

 was an enthusiastic one. It was generally 

 felt that a provincial association will be of 

 great value to the growers. A meeting of 

 the special committee will be held Wednes- 

 day afternoon, ]\Iarch i, after which a mass 

 meeting of vegetable growers that will be 

 representative of the province will probably 

 be arranged for. 



FERTILIZERS FOR EARLY TOMATOES 



W. W. HILLBORX, FRUIT EXPERIMENT 



I HAVE every confidence in chemicals 

 as fertilizers for early tomatoes. We 

 are, however, paying too much for the ready 

 mixed article, which we cannot always get 

 in the right proportions. I have had the 

 best results from buying the chemicals sepa- 



Mr. J. L. Hilborn's Cucumber House, 20 x 206 Feet, Essex County 



rate, but have experienced considerable dif- not safely be used 



ficulty in pulverizing nitrate of soda, muriate 

 of potash, etc. I am building a cheap ma- 

 chine to grind such material, and will run it 

 with a two-horse power gasoline engine that 

 I bought for pumping water. I shall use 

 a large quantity of nitrate of soda, muriate 

 of potash, sulphate of potash, kainit, dis- 



STATIOX, LEAMINGTON, ONT. 



solved bone, and acid phosphate, and shall 

 make a number of experiments and hope to 

 get some information that I have not been 

 able to find in literature on the subject. 

 One of the important problems to be solved 

 is the right mixture to produce the best crop 

 of early tomatoes. 

 Nearly all the ready 

 mixed fertilizers con- 

 tain too much nitro- 

 gen and not enough 

 phosphoric acid and 

 potash. On this ac- 

 count the first blos- 

 soms do not set but 

 drop of. 



W^eather conditions 

 must be taken into 

 account. \\'ith a 

 cold, w'et spring as 

 much nitrogen can- 

 as when the conditions 

 I want to get at the 

 right mixture for an unfavorable spring, 

 for we are never sure of the weather until 

 after the fertiHzer is in the soil. 



are more favorable. 



Plow barnyard manure under to form 

 humus as it needs darkness and moisture. 



