

Sbpteubbb 7, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



15 



New Carnation House of Arthur Cockcroft, Notthport, Long Island. 



exeellenf account through calling them 

 to- the attention of the editors of the 

 local papers, who usually are glad to 

 print notices that bring in many 

 visitors. 



A NEW LONG ISLAND PLANT. 



At Northport, N. Y., on Long Island, 

 Arthur Cockcroft has just started in 

 the business with an iron-frame green- 

 house 55x400 feet. The accompanying 

 illustration shows a view looking from 

 the center toward one end of the house. 

 It will be noted that all the benches 

 are on pipe frames, built with th^ 

 Lord & Burnham special bench fittings. 

 The house is heated by hot water, 

 using a No. 14 Kroeschell boiler, the 

 Identical boiler exhibited by Kroeschell 

 at the Baltimore convention of the 

 6. A. F., in connection with the Kroes- 

 chell svstem of threaded tube piping. 

 There are 15,000 lineal feet of 2-inch 

 pipe, with flows and returns, for this 

 house. 



Planting was completed August 12. 

 The house contains 27,000 plants and 

 they are starting off wonderfully well 

 in this light house. The varieties are 

 Mrs, %3=^^ "Ward, Pink Delight, En- 

 chantress," White Enchantress, San- 

 gamo, Splendor, Winona, Dorothy Gor- 

 don, Victory, Beacon and White Per- 

 fection. The cut will be sold on con- 

 signment in the New York market. 



Mr. Cockroft intends to make a spe- 

 cialty of the rooted cutting business 

 and of young stock for the trade. 

 With this" purpose in view a propagat- 

 ing house 20x142 has been constructed 

 in the same first-class manner as the 

 •work on the main house. In the pic- 

 tnre J. George Jurgens is seen. He is 

 the foreman in charge for Mr. Cock- 

 ■croft. 



VALUE OF HOBSE MANUBE. 



Will you please inform me, approxi- 

 mately, what manurial and chemical 

 properties would be likely to be con- 

 tained in a cord of horse manure, with 

 the average amount of straw bedding 

 in it, if it has been thoroughly rotted 

 down for six months outdoors and 

 turned frequently, so as not to be al- 

 lowed to burn? W. C. W. 



This is not an easy question to an- 

 swer. The value of the manure depends 

 on the food of the animal, on it^ age, 

 to some extent, and on whether it has 

 been kept under cover or exposed to 

 the weather. The New York Cornell 

 station gives the fertilizing constitu- 

 ents and value per ton of the manure 

 of a horse, liberally fed and given 

 sufficient bedding, as follows: Water, 

 48.69 per cent; nitrogen, .490 per cent; 

 phosphoric acid, .260 per cent; potash, 

 .480 per cent; value per ton, $2.21. Com- 

 pared with cow manure, I find this dif- 

 ference: Water, 75.25; nitrogen, .426 

 per cent; phospnoric acid, .290 per cent; 

 potash, .440 per cent; value per ton, 

 $2.02. 



The figures in these tables represent- 

 ed the amount and actual fertilizing 

 values of carefully preserved manure, 

 both solid and liquid, of well fed and 

 cared for animals. The manure was in 

 each case protected from leaching and 

 in some cases a little gymrim was used 

 as a preservative. The/tables showed 

 that, as regards valuer per ton of nor- 

 mal manure obtained, hens excluded, 

 sheep and hogs stood first, horses sec- 

 ond and cotFs third. 



The Massachusetts Experimental Sta- 

 tion, at Amherst, made numerous analy- 

 ses of manure produced on different 

 farms in the state and the actual aver- 



ages were: Nitrogen, 0.47 per cent; 

 phosphoric acid, 0.33 per cent; potash, 

 0.49 per cent; water, 69.6 per cent. 



It must be remembered that about 

 one-half or more of the value of the 

 excreta of horses and cows is contained 

 in their urine, and where this can be 

 saved and mixed with the solid manure 

 a better balanced fertilizer is the re- 

 sult. The liquid of horses contains 89 

 per cent water, 1.20 per cent nitrogen, 

 a trace only of phosphoric acid and 

 1.5 per cent potash and soda. With all 

 water removed, the composition of dry 

 matter of solid and liquid horse manure 

 is as follows: Nitrogen, solid, 2.08 

 [^ cent; liquid, 10.9 per cent; phos- 

 plTbric acid, solid, 1.45 per cent; liquid, 

 a trace; potash and soda, solid, 1.25 

 per cent; liquid, 13.6 per cent, 

 • Manure loses its value from fermen- 

 /tation and leaching from the weather. 

 jSuch as is stored under cover will not 

 Hose in value one-third as much as that 

 exposed to the weather. Experiments 

 at several stations show a loss of thirty 

 to fifty per cent in six months on ma- 

 nure stored outdoors, and to lessen 

 this loss it is better to get it on the 

 land at shorter intervals where cover- 

 ing can notybe done. On this subject 

 a whole volume could be written. 

 Please remember that in actual practice 

 probably not over fifty per cent of the 

 values given is realized. C. W. 



Joliet, m.— Albert G. Eott will again 

 have charge of the florists' department 

 at the Will county fair. Numerous ex- 

 hibits are expected. 



Alton, 111. — ^Joseph Krug & Sons are 

 busy hauling several cars of coal from 

 the railroad yards to their greenhouses. 

 They always have their sheds full when 

 time for flring^rrives. 



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