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you, you want to be careful not to get into trouble from any- 

 thing that you have heard me say. 



Q. Do you use acid phosphate in all of these crops? 



Mr. Lyman : Yes, everything. 



Q. And you make the same application to all of the dif- 

 ferent kinds of soil, no matter whether you are on heavy soil 

 or light soil? 



Mr. Lyman : I put it on, but not in the same quantities. 



Q. But of the same quality ? 



Mr. Lyman : Yes, I want that available fertilizing in- 

 gredient in that soil. In the peach business I have, as I have 

 already said, found it very useful in promoting the growth of 

 the trees. I want something there to regulate, or rather to 

 promote tree growth in that way. I would rather have it than 

 most anything elese I know of. 



O. Have you tried ground bone? 



Mr. Lyman : I did try it out. 



Q. You do not use any ground bone at all? 



Mr. Lyman : I tried it out, but I did not like it. 



Q. No stable manure? 



Mr. Lyman : I have got plenty of it, but I do not want 

 to put it on. There are places on the farm where I think it 

 will do better than to put it in the orchard. 



Q. Would you say that under ordinary conditions it was 

 not a good thing to put on an orchard? 



Mr. Lyman : I do not want to say that. I do not use 

 it in my orchards simply because I think there are other places 

 on the farm where I can get better results from it. 



A Member: I know a man who has about twenty acres 

 in a peach orchard, and he uses exclusively New York stable 

 manure as a fertilizer. He uses nothing else, and that man 

 has made nine crops in ten years. It has made him rich. 



