NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 191 



O. I would like to ask what percentage of the bask: 

 slag- you consider as available the first year? 



Mr. Lyman: You ask me a question that I cannot 

 answer. The Experiment Station people perhaps can answer 

 it all right. 



[Member: I would like to ask Mr. Lyman if he will 

 give us the formula for that potato fertilizer? 



Mr. Lyman : I take four hundred pounds of muriate of 

 potash, eight hundred pounds of tankage and eight hundred 

 pounds of acid phosphate. That makes a fine combination for. 

 a good crop. If you want some very early potatoes you can 

 put in some nitrate of soda, or something of that kind. 



O. How much of it would you put on? 



Mr. Lyman: I would use a ton to the acre. 



A Member: Will you please repeat that formula? 



Mr. Lyman: Eight hundred pounds of tankage to eight 

 hundred pounds of acid phosphate and four hundred pounds 

 of muriate of potash. 



Now as to muriate of potash, you will be told by every- 

 body that that is not a good thing to use for potatoes. I 

 never used anything else, and I made a failure of potatoes ; 

 that is. in growing them commercially. Our land was not 

 adapted to it. but where I succeeded in growing potatoes I 

 ahvavs got good ones. I thought I had better let the other 

 fellow raise the potatoes, and I would raise peaches. There 

 is not anything that you can get your money's worth out of 

 any better, when you can get anything at all, than you can 

 out of fruit, and especially peaches. It is always a surprise 

 when you get a crop of fine peaches. There are also just as 

 big disappointments in the business. I am a sort of an opti- 

 mist in the matter of peaches and farming anyway. You want 

 to look at it intelligently and not contract too much of my 

 spirit. It may cost you some money if you do. So I warn 



