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beneficial, as it provides food also for the sucker, which, 

 with food at hand, is greatly aided in developing a healthy 

 sucker, and thus the entire plant is given a vigorous send- 

 off in youth. It is necessary, to give a good start to a 

 young plant, to withhold manures until a stand is secured, 

 though when cane is planted during the fall and winter, 

 as it is in Louisiana, the danger of loss by leaching must 

 be reckoned upon, and the exact amounts to be applied 

 at that time regulated by the judgment of the planter. 

 Usually the more perfect the incorporation of a manure 

 in the soil, the better the results to be expected, but in this 

 case it should be deposited in a drill and well mixed with 

 the soil. In the spring, after the cane is closely off-barred, 

 the fertilizer, if not applied at planting, should be scat- 

 tered on both sides of the plant from the center of the row 

 to the off-barred furrow. Thus, in reversing the furrow, 

 the manure is covered, and subsequent cultivation will 

 mix the latter with the soil. If the cane has received the 

 first application at planting, the second one should be 

 given in May, on both sides of the row. The stubble 

 cane should not be fertilized very long before each sprout 

 has sent out its own rootlets, since prior to this no good 

 could be accomplished, and there would be a waste of 

 manure. 



HOPS 



Little interest has been taken in the matter of ferti- 

 lizers for hops because they are grown largely upon very 

 rich soils in the West where little fertilizer is used, while 

 in the East the interest in hop-culture is decreasing. 

 Farm manure is at present the standard fertilizer, but 

 many growers are now beginning to use commercial fer- 

 tilizers. In the fertilizing of hops, the quality of the 



