Food for For garden crops such as beets, carrots, 



Plants Garden Crops. ? • • u i ^^ ^ .^w. 



^'^"^^ parsnips, onions, spinach, lettuce, etc., sow 



^° the mixture as recommended for potatoes, broadcast before 



the seed is sown, at the rate of from 500 to 1,000 pounds 



per acre, according to the richness of the land. When the 



land has been heavily manured for a number of years, it 



may not be necessary to use so much superphosphate and 



potash ; in fact, potash would probably not be needed at all. 



Nitrate of Soda alone on such land often has a wonderful effect. 



c. , . In setting out a new bed, scatter along the 



Strawberries. j 1 • . • u r ^u if 



rows and cultivate in, berore the plants are 



set out, the same mixture as for potatoes. It is well to 

 scatter the fertilizers for a foot each side of the rows so that 

 the runners will have something to feed upon. In the 

 spring sow Nitrate of Soda on the bed broadcast at the rate 

 of about 200 pounds per acre. On old beds sow the mix- 

 ture broadcast in the fall and an additional 200 pounds of 

 Nitrate per acre in the spring. 

 P . . Sow broadcast, in the fall, a mixture of, say, 



^ „' I'^o pounds of superphosphate and 100 



Currants, Etc. ^-' K . ^ r/u t-u-„ 



pounds muriate or potash per acre. i his 



can be done, if the rows are six feet apart, by sowing a 

 large handful at every two steps on each side of the row. 

 Raspberries should have a small handful and currants a 

 large handful to each bush. This should be cultivated in, 

 if possible, early in the spring. Sow Nitrate of Soda in the 

 same way. It will pay to put on as much Nitrate as you 

 did superphosphate and potash, but if you do not want to 

 put on so much, use smaller handfuls. If the super- 

 phosphate and potash have not been applied in the fall, sow 

 in the spring at the same time the Nitrate is sown and 

 cultivate it in early in the spring. 



TT , Since Nitrate of Soda and muriate of potash 



How and , , , . ^ -u a 



,v7u D are brought to this country by sea, and 



Where to Buy , , & . ,, . j r ^u^ 



y. ... . phosphate is usually transported rrom the 



Fertilizing ^ . ^ . , J f . , 1 



,, ^ . , mines in vessels, these materials, as a rule, 



can be purchased at the seaports cheaper 



than in the interior. New York is the largest market for 



these materials, but Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore 



also receive very large quantities, as well as San Francisco. 



Lower prices can be obtained by ordering fertilizing 



materials in car-load lots. A car-load is not less than ten 



