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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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WOODLAWN NURSERIES A ^NuUaE S } E, < ; A » R . s Y ON 



as valuable as commercial kainit. This fertilizer 

 contains only 12 per cent, of potash in the form of 

 potassium oxide. This is not nearly as available to 

 plants as the potash in ashes of garden waste prod- 

 ucts. These different forms of organic ashes con- 

 tain potassium carbonate, one of the most readily 

 soluble potash salts. 



For this reason care must be used in handling the 

 ashes of garden wastes. If rain or dew falls on them, 

 they may lose half their fertilizing value in a single 

 night. This would not make so much difference if 

 the materials are burned in places where the fer- 

 tilizer is desired, as the rain would carry the dissolved 

 potash into the soil, where it becomes fixed either 

 by soil micro-organisms or by organic substances. 

 But if these ashes are required on some other part 

 of the garden or at some other season of the year 

 than when produced, they should be gathered as 

 soon as cool enough and kept dry. They may be 

 preserved for a considerable time without loss of 

 fertilizing value, if they are thoroughly mixed with 

 superphosphate and kept in a dry place. A small 

 quantity of this mixture placed around flowers and 

 vegetables will result in increased growth and vigor. 



Corn-cob ashes furnish an excellent supply of 

 high-grade potash for gardens, sometimes equalling 

 40 per cent., or practically three times the fertilizing 

 value of kainit. I have used corn-cob ashes abund- 

 antly for years with excellent results. Corn is 

 bought in bulk on the cob for feeding poultry, and 

 the cobs are kept for use in the kitchen range during 

 the summer months and for the open fireplace on 

 cool nights in spring and fall. They make a hot fire 

 for both purposes. These ashes are carefully pre- 

 served for future use or placed on growing crops in 

 the garden where most required. Peas, beets, as- 

 paragus, and other early vegetables respond quickly 

 and profitably to small quantities of corn-cob ashes. 



As previously stated, easily soluble potash salts 

 like potassium carbonate do not readily wash out 

 from the soil because they become fixed by micro- 

 organisms and decaying organic matter. Wherever 

 good gardening is practised by using sufficient or- 

 ganic ashes and •manures and by deep tillage to 

 bring up the subsoil occasionally, the quantity of 

 potash in garden soils may be increased rather than 

 diminished by cropping because more potash is sup- 

 plied by these means than is removed by the crops. 

 This is one of the best ways to conserve soil fertility. 

 Both are good garden practices. By making use of 

 the natural supply of potash that is right at our 

 hands, every gardener in America can grow flowers, 

 fruits and vegetables successfully year after year 

 without relying on importations of commercial 

 potash fertilizers and without decreasing the fertility 

 of his soil. 



Kensington, Md. James B. Morman. 



Successful Management of the 

 Small Farm 



THERE is so much fascination in running a 

 small farm that the owner often wishes for a 

 larger area, even against his better judgment. The 

 man who increases both investment and taxation 

 must be sure of his abilities or of his bank account; 

 the man who increases his farm without enlarging 

 his bounds, obligations or taxes — such a man is a 

 master mechanic, a captain in his industry. And 

 still the doing of such noteworthy work is not so 

 difficult as might be supposed. The bold, patient 

 engineer of a farm will "stake out the job," and 

 then make it his daily work, with a definite end in 

 view. Every square yard of waste land will be 

 utilized; time, labor, fertilizer will be conserved,, 

 and so economically, so scientifically applied, that 

 results will immediately begin to appear. 



First, any owner whose operations seemingly run 

 themselves, or whose returns are not satisfactory, 

 will do well to consider, first, where the general 

 efficiency may be increased by the saving of time. 

 Is a half-hour wasted after meals because the im- 

 mediate work is not decided on in advance? May 

 not the team going to town for grain take at least 

 a part of a load of something to sell? Or if it goes 

 in with a load, may it not have something to bring 

 back? 



Second, the wise application of labor and its 

 economic direction, included in which must be 

 recognized, more and more, the necessity to interest 

 the employees and to keep them contented and 



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