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beginners' guide to fruit growing 



Kind of Seed 

 Soy bean, bushels 

 Summer vetch, bushels 

 Winter vetch, bushel 

 Canada pea, bushels 

 Buckwheat, bushel 

 Rye, bushels 

 Barley, bushels 

 Barley and peas, bushel, 

 each 



. Quantity Cost 



iy2- 2 $3. oo-$S.oo bushel 



i^ $3-50-$4.oo bushel 



I $6.oo-$7.50 bushel 



ij/^ $2.oo-$3.oo bushel 



I $i.so-$2.oo bushel 



lYi $i.5o-$2.oo bushel 



ii^- 2 $i.75-$2.so bushel 



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THE USE OF FERTILIZERS 



There has been a sort of blind assumption preva- 

 lent among farmers that fruit trees need little or 

 no fertilizer. Such a misunderstanding might be 

 explained if it were localized in the middle west, 

 where fertilizers are not fashionable, but it is harder 

 to see why this delusion should wax strongest in 

 those very regions where the efificacy of fertilizers 

 is generally unquestioned. The fact is that both 

 science and experience argue that fruit plantations 

 need regular and liberal feeding, the same as any 

 other agricultural crop. If the exact requirements 

 of fruit trees in this respect are not so well under- 

 stood as are the requirements of tobacco, for ex- 

 ample, it is because the subject is really a more 

 difficult one. 



Barnyard manure is the alpha and too often- the 

 omega of farm fertilizers, and is rather frequently 

 applied to orchards. It is much better than none 

 at all, and though not well adapted to this purpose, 

 can be used to advantage in limited amounts. It 

 contains an excess proportion of nitrogen, which 

 gives it the effect of producing a rank and excessive 

 growth of wood, often at the expense of fruit bear- 



