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berries use more nitrogen than any other. 



MR. SMITH: I don't know that I am prepared to 

 answer that to your entire satisfaction. I would want to 

 keep the nitrogen down. Mr. Clarke spoke of the 2-8-10- or 

 2-8-2 being fortified by more potash. I like to see my fer- 

 tilizer brought down to about two per cent nitrogen. If you 

 are using the cover crop and special legumes such as Mr. 

 Jenks has spoken of today, the Canada peas, you can afford 

 to drop back on the nitrogen ; in fact I think you had better. 



QUESTION : How do you like barnyard manure ? 



MR. SMITH : I think you had better employ that in the 

 original preparation of land. I don't think the raspberry 

 is a fruit that requires such a heavy application of stable 

 manure. I think you had l)etter use barnyard manure upon 

 corn or grass in the preparation of the land that is going to 

 be used for raspberries. Turning under a clover in advance 

 of setting a raspberry plantation is wise. 



MR. STOCKWELL: Once I intended to have the best 

 thing on earth, so I took the Cuthbert and put manure on 

 lavishly. I got some enormous big canes, way up in the air, 

 and I thought I had a beautiful field of raspberries, but what 

 1 did have was a fine field of cane. The consequence was 

 that with so much nitrogen they almost wholly died out. 



THE PRESIDENT: Perhaps we had better close the 

 session for this morning. 



(Adjourned to 2 P. M.) 



