106 WOKCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1893. 



paying more for it than the same plant food can be purchased for in 

 other substances, the question is, first, are we paying all we can 

 afford to pay? 



I think you will all admit that it is very much cheaper than it was 

 several years ago and it would have continued to be more plenty, had 

 things continued as they have been, as farmers have found that it was 

 more economical to buy more manufactured manure and chemicals, 

 and most of the gardeners are using mixed manures some, and the 

 points I wish to call your attention especially to in this connection 

 are, first, that there will be, practically speaking, no more manure 

 made in the city if we pay $5 per cord than if we pay $2. Second, 

 that we as gardeners and farmers will get it all just the same. 



Third, all that will be necessary for us to do to keep the price where 

 it is is to take what is offered at that price, and make up with fertil- 

 izers and chemicals. 



Fourth, if we all say we will have as much manure as we have been 

 using, I predict a sharp rise in price before the end of a year. 



I intended to take up some of our standard chemicals and discuss 

 them separately, but I am covering time faster than the subject, but 

 there is one thing in relation to chemicals and such fertilizers as dried 

 blood, fish and bone, these are not complete fertilizers, that is, they 

 do not contain all the elements that it seems to be necessary for us to 

 apply to grow good crops, that is, nitrogen, phosphoric acid and 

 potash, and for that reason, anyone who does not want to bother 

 about what liis crops calls for, or what the chemicals contain, and 

 what else it is necessary to apply with them to make an even balanced 

 manure, had better buy mixed goods. 



It is very desirable to have a continual income and if the market 

 gardener would have one he must make arrangements accordingly. 

 Where vegetables and milk, or any branch of the dairy business are 

 carried on together, this is much easier than where vegetable growing 

 is the exclusive business, but here there is but little trouble in having 

 something to sell every week during the year, even without much glass, 

 and, while there is not the money in stored or forced vegetables that 

 there was before trucking was carried on so extensively in the South, 

 there are many advantages of storing some vegetables, and it would 

 seem to me as though we should store more than we do ; it would be 

 certainly desirable to if we were to have such winters as this has been. 



Usually most vegetables will bring about as much in the fall as dur- 

 ing the winter, and it is often argued that it is better to sell at that lime, 

 and it may be, but it often takes much time to prepare them for mar- 



