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be used. A tank or barrel should be located at some 

 convenient point, and in it should be placed about one 

 foot of manure. If filled with water and allowed to 

 stand a few hours, it will be ready for use. Plants of all 

 kinds, either growing in beds or that have received their 

 last shift in pots, and have filled the soil with their roots, 

 should receive, during the growing season, an application 

 of liquid manure, either animal or chemical, from once 

 to three times a week. 



To secure quick results and for application in solu- 

 tion, sixty pounds of nitrate of soda, twenty-five of 



nitrate of potash and fifteen of 

 phosphate of ammonia, form 

 a good mixture. A firmer, 

 but less rapid, growth will be 

 secured from fifty pounds ni- 

 trate of soda, thirty of nitrate 

 of potash, and twenty of phos- 

 phate of ammonia. Elmer D. 

 Smith of Adrian, Michigan, 

 has been very successful in 

 growing chrysanthemums with 

 the above mixture, applying 

 one pound in one hundred gal- 

 lons of water for a house one hundred by eighteen feet, 

 every five days until the flowers are half-open. Phos- 

 phate of potash is also used! in place of the nitrate of 

 potash and phosphate of ammonia. 



Commercial brands are put up by several manufac- 

 turers, which give good results, but, like all concentrated 

 fertilizers, they must be used with care. 



For the application of liquid fertilizers the Kinney 

 pump (Fig. 127), made by the Kingston (E. I.) Hose 

 Connection Co., will be found very useful. It is at- 

 tached to a hose and draws from a barrel or tank a 

 strong solution and, after mingling it with the clear 



FIG. 127. THE KINNEY PUMP. 



