FERTILIZING PEACHES 



fertilizer, and the net value of the increase over the cost of 

 the fertilizer. 



To discuss the table in detail is neither wise nor desir- 

 able, but it will well reward careful study and considera- 

 tion on the part of all interested in the cultivation of 

 peaches, and in fact, a study of these figures in association 

 with a scratch pad will do more to inform the grower rela- 

 tive to the various fertilizer formulas in increasing the 

 yield and the profits per acre from a peach orchard than 

 anything else. 



It is noteworthy that the application of fertilizer, re- 

 gardless of its combination, increased the yield over no 

 fertilizer in every instance. The most noticeable increase 

 in yield, however, was secured on the plats to which a com- 

 plete fertilizer and a complete fertilizer with lime were 

 applied. The average yield per tree on plat 5 was 4.83 

 bushels; on plat 6, 4.14 bushels. It does not appear from 

 these results that the lime was beneficial on this soil, and 

 as it cost so much more in proportion than the balance of 

 the fertilizer, it naturally reduced the profit per acre quite 

 markedly. It will be noted that where a complete fertilizer 

 was used on plats 5 and 6 that the yield per acre of 108 

 trees was at the rate of 521.64 bushels and 447.12 bushels 

 respectively. This represented an increase of 189.54 bushels 

 for plat 5, a complete fertilizer, and 115.02 bushels for 



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