FERTILIZER FORMULAS 



105 



125 pounds blood 16 per cent 



200 pounds tankage 10 per cent Am. 20 per cent B. P., Lime 



450 pounds bone 4y 2 per cent Am. 50 per cent B. P. Lime 



650 pounds basic slag 16^ per cent 



420 pounds sulphate potash. 48 per cent 

 155 pounds filler 



2000 



Mr. L. F. Priest, of Gleasondale, Massachusetts, grows his 

 orchard in sod. He says: " Our best trees have a good dressing 

 of stable manure in the fall and the following spring 600 pounds 

 of slag and 200 pounds of sulfate of potash per acre for the 

 largest trees, the smaller ones receiving less. All the hay we 

 can spare is used for mulch." 



Munson and Frost, of Littleton, Massachusetts, use the fol- 

 lowing formula on their bearing apple orchard: 500 pounds 

 basic slag, arid 225 pounds high grade sulfate of potash. 



Mr. A. C. Starr, of Starrs Point, Nova Scotia, writes: " We 

 use all the barn manure we have to spare in our orchards and 

 we usually get over them once in about four years, giving a fair 

 application. In addition we apply each year 400 to 500 pounds 

 of ground bone per acre and 200 to 300 pounds of muriate of 

 potash. ' ' 



Professor J. P. Stewart of the Pennsylvania Experiment 

 Station, who has given a great deal of study to this question 

 of fertilizing orchards, gives the following table of fertilizers 

 to be used while determining by experiment what the orchard 

 actually needs. 



TABLE III. A General Fertilizer for Apple Orchards. 



(Amounts per Acre for Bearing Trees) 



