18 Teuck Growing in the South. 



FORMULA. 



The following is a good all-round formula for truck 

 crops generally: 



800 lbs. cottonseed-meal, 8 per cent, ammonia. 

 200 lbs. nitrate of soda, 18 per cent, ammonia. 

 800 lbs. acid phosphate, 14 per cent available phos- 

 phoric acid. 

 200 lbs. muriate of potash, 50 per cent, actual potash. 



2,000 



This gives 2,000 pounds, analyzing 5 per cent, ammo- 

 nia, 5 3-10 per cent, available phosphoric acid, and 5 per 

 cent, actual potash. If the mixture is wanted to use at 

 planting time, the quantity of cottonseed-meal should be 

 cut down, so as not to exceed 2 per cent, ammonia derived 

 from that source, and the supplement of nitrate of sodii 

 increased to make about 5 per cent, of the total mixture. 

 In case cottonseed-meal should be too high to justify its 

 use, other organic materials should be used. It should be 

 borne in mind that no commercial mixtures will have the 

 full effect, unless the soil is kept well supplied with humus 

 as heretofore directed. An excessive quantity of am- 

 monia should never be used on tomatoes and eggplant, as 

 it causes a rank vine growth and shedding of fruit. Its 

 detrimental effect is marked more on these crops than 

 others. 



MIXING. 



If mixing is to be done by hand, the different ingre- 

 dients should be spread upon a smooth floor, taking care 



