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of nozzle, squirt, not spray, a small stream 

 right over the roots on one side but not on 

 the leaves. We kept increasing the appli- 

 cation of this as celery grew, going over it 

 every four or five days. 



"After the plants were set about a month, 

 we changed to the dry form of nitrate, using 

 but little at first, but increasing all the time 

 as plants grew and could take in more. 

 Applications were perhaps a week apart 

 later. And in this way we used about 3 tons 

 nitrate of soda on the three acres. Previous 

 to this, we used 2, tons dried blood and I 

 ton of nitrate of soda, but we have decided 

 that the cleanest types of fertilizers should 

 alone be used on a plant which is so largely 

 eaten in the raw state, so that we have 

 dropped all organic fertilizers for this crop. 



"We apply about a ton of lime to the acre 

 every three years perhaps, planning to 

 spread this on the soil at a different time 

 from that at which the acid phosphate is ap- 

 plied, because we want the acidity taken 

 from the soil, not the fertilizer. So we like 

 to put the lime on in the fall. We have 

 grown but very few cover crops on this soil, 

 but it does not seem to need it yet, and then 



