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CHAPTER VI. 



FERTILIZING. 



As this book is written more for the benefit of those not 

 experienced in Florida trucking, I am not going to recom- 

 mend your mixing the fertihzer for your crops, for even 

 after you have had experience in the business unless you 

 plant a very large acreage, you will find it will pay you 

 better to buy ready mixed brands. I have tried to give you 

 an analysis suited to each vegetable which you will be able 

 to buy ready mixed from any of the large fertilizer factories 

 in the State, and their mixtures must be good, as a majority 

 of the most successful truckers in Florida are using them. I 

 have used fertilizer from the following firms, and found 

 their brands all they claimed them to be : The E. O. Painter 

 Fertilizer Co., Independent Fertilizer Co., Armour Fertilizer 

 Co., and Chas. Tyson & Co., all of Jacksonville, Florida, 

 and Ocala Fertilizer Co., Ocala, Florida. Any of these will 

 be glad to give you information concerning their goods and 

 assist you in any way possible with your fertilizing problems. 



A large majority of the most successful growers in the 

 different trucking sections use at least a ton of fertilizer 

 to the acre for each crop, and in addition, a ton of Cana- 

 dian hardwood ashes, and they make it pay. If you are 

 stingy with your crops, they will be stingy with you in their 

 yield. 



A complete fertilizer must contain the following ele- 

 ments : nitrogen or ammonia, phosphoric acid and potash. 

 For shipping crops you will find that you will get better 

 results if the fertilizer contains a good per cent of potash, 

 as it is this element that gives the vegetables strength to 

 stand up under their long journey to market. 



