FERTILIZING PEACHES 



The physical examination of the trees under test 

 revealed the following interesting facts. On the unfertilized 

 plat the trees seemed to break down much more easily than 

 on the fertilized plats, especially on those plats receiving a 

 complete fertilizer with a high per cent of potash. This is 

 in accordance with the experience of other growers and in 

 line with the suggestions made herein relative to the action 

 of potash on the hardiness and strength of wood. It was 

 especially noticeable that the foliage on plats 5 and 6 was 

 much better than on the plats to which no fertilizer was 

 applied. The year 1910 would be regarded as a poor year 

 for fruit, yet the fruit obtained from the fertilized plats 

 was in much better condition for shipping than that from 

 the other plats. The fertilized trees were in much better 

 condition to enter the winter and the fruit was also much 

 larger on all these plats than in previous years. 



In this experiment the fertilizer was applied at the 

 rate of 1,000 pounds per acre, and was used on the basis of 

 3 per cent of nitrogen, 7 per cent of available phosphoric 

 acid, and 10 per cent of potash. The materials from which 

 it was prepared were dried blood, acid phosphate, and sul- 

 fate of potash. On plat 6 it will be observed that lime was 

 applied. The lime used was in the form of air slacked lime 

 and cost approximately $8.00 per ton. Each plat consisted 

 of two rows containing fourteen trees each or twenty-eight 



