4452 Tue Veceraste Ixpustry In New York State 
first named distance 5,808 plants are required for an acre. The 
holes are made with a hoe and soaked with water, and the mud 
is plastered over the roots in the same way as already described 
for cauliflowers. Twenty barrels of water an acre are required 
for setting in a dry time. 
FERTILIZATION AND CULTIVATION 
A commercial fertilizer is always used on sprouts, though when 
the latter succeed potatoes the same vear the fertilizer is applied 
to the potatoes. If the land has been spread with bunkers the 
preceding fall, one-half ton of 4-8-7 fertilizer is sufficient on the 
potatoes; otherwise 1,500 to 2,000 pounds should be used. If 
the land is saved for sprouts, the same amounts of the 4-8-7 
or of the 6—8—5 are used just before setting. One grower obtained 
one of his best crops when he used three-fifths of a ton of Lister’s 
potato fertilizer and one-half ton of fish scrap, on land saved 
for the crop. The land was in sod the preceding vear. The I. P. 
Thomas potato fertilizer, at one to one and one-fourth tons per 
acre, is also liked for sprouts. Every other vear the land should 
have a spreading of stable manure at the rate of 100 to 150 dump- 
loads (16 to 24 tons) per acre. 
Bunkers when obtainable cost $1.50 a thousand. They do not 
become so quickly available ag fish scrap, but the blood and juices 
go into the soil, and the fertilizing materials come considerably 
cheaper in this form. It takes about 14,000 bunkers to make a 
ton of fish scrap analyzing 10 per cent. ammonia and 6 per cent. 
phosphoric acid, yet the scrap sells for $35 a ton, 
Swamp muck from the salt marshes is being used on sprout 
ground by one grower at the rate of ten spreader-loads per acre. 
It is dug with a steam shovel, sprinkled with ground phosphate 
rock, and shredded by running through a rotary ice chopper. The 
material, which is black as coal, consists of a mass of fine roots and 
ought greatly to increase the retentiveness of the soil; but it has 
not been in use long enough to demonstrate its value. A sample 
shows the following analysis: 
Per cent. 
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