FERTILIZING PEACHES 



Comparative Yield Per Acre of Peaches Receivine Complete Fertilizer (10% Potash) 

 and Unfertilized Peaches 



plat 6, a complete fertilizer with lime. On the basis of 

 acre production the value of the crop from plat 5 at $1.65 

 per bushel would be $860.71, and from plat 6, $737.75. 

 Contrast this with the average value of the no-fertilizer 

 plats, which was $547.97. This leaves from $200.00 to 

 $300.00 profit to the peach grower above the cost of com- 

 mercial plant food. The actual net return shown by this 

 experiment over no-fertilizer plats in the case of plat 5, 

 which received potash, phosphoric acid, and nitrogen, is 

 $295.89 ; in the case of plat 6 where lime was used in addi- 

 tion to the above formula, $164.93. Surely these facts are 

 sufficiently striking to convince the peach grower of the 



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