MASSACHUSETTS 

 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



BULLETIN NO. 444 DECEMBER 1947 



Fertilizer Experiments 

 on an Abnormal Orchard Soil 



By J. K. Shaw 



This bulletin reports the response of fruit plants to a long continued fertilizer 

 program of nitrogen, phosphorus, potash, and lime. The conditions were un- 

 usual ; but the results are of value in suggesting right and wrong fertilizer pro- 

 grams in the orchard. 



UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS 

 AMHERST, MASS. 



