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A MEMBER : Yon would not put any salt in that mix- 

 lure? 



PROFESSOR LIPMAN : Yes, I should add salt. 



THE CHAIRMAN : I would like to ask how long it takes 

 that muck or the nitrogen in that muck to become available? 



PROFESSOR LIPMAN: That will depend— if you are 

 using manure, it will depend on the proportion of manure to 

 the muck. You will find in the old muck books the state- 

 ment that there is a limit beyond which you cannot dilut-^ 

 muck or peat with manure. If you are not using manure, 

 fissuming that it is a mixture of muck and lime only, then 

 the question of availability is a rather indefinite one. If you 

 keep it in a hea]i, moist, in contact with lime for several 

 "".-.•eeks, I believe it would give you much better results than 

 if you spread the two directly. 



A MEMBER : Where would you get so much salt? You 

 want to get a tliousand pounds; where would you buy it? 



PROFESSOR T.IPMAN: There are a number of com- 

 ])anies, at least two that I know of, the name and address of 

 one escapes me, but the other one is the International Salt 

 Company, of Watkins, N. Y., also Scranton, Pa. They sell 

 a salt of ninety-nine per cent purity, at two dollars and fifty 

 cents a ton, F. O. B. Watkins. The freight rate to most 

 l>oints in Massachusetts should not be over two dollars or 

 *^hree dollars a ton, at the most, so you ought to be able to 

 get that at five dollars or five dollars and fifty cents a ton 

 delivered. 



A :\IE:MBER: I wonld like to ask what efl:"ect a large 

 jtmonnt of cultivation is likely to liave on an orchard? The 

 lertilizei- material that might be in the orchard? I have in 

 mind a neighbor who cultivates his orchard pretty thorough- 

 ly, generally gets (piite a crop of apples, but does not use 

 any fertilizer. 



PROF. LIPMAN: The cultivation of land, provided it 

 is tliorongh. is for the conservation of soil moisture and for 

 the increase of the amount of available plant food, nitrates, 

 phosphates, etc., and the more thoroughly the work of culti- 



