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POSSIBILITIES OF MUCK SOIL 



ground, and harvest the crop. The average yield I should estimate 

 at seven tons. We have contracted for eighteen dollars a ton, and 

 the canner furnishes all packages and pays freight each way. 



Mr. Hallett: What varieties do not run to seed as soon as 

 others.^ 



Mr. Greffrath: The Long Standing we find the best of any 

 variety to sow if we want to carry it along. We are going to sow all 

 our spinach at one time. We told the party we contracted with we 

 would sow Round Thick Leaf, Victory, and Long Standing. There 

 is not much difference in Long Season and Long Standing. Norfolk 

 Savoy is an excellent spinach to sow in the fall, but we don't sow it in 

 the spring. It runs to seed very rapidly. In the fall I think it is 

 one of the best. 



Mr. Boxxey: Is that the same as Bloomsdale? 



Mr. Greffrath: I believe they are the same. 



Mr. Cook: What would you recommend as fertilizer for spinach.^ 



Mr. Greffrath: We don't use any fertilizer at all, but put the 

 spinach on ground highly fertilized for celery. If I were going to 

 start it in the spring, I might give it some amount below five hundred 

 pounds per acre. I believe that we are using as much fertilizer at 

 South Lima as is used in any section where they are growing truck. 

 On my early celery I don't use less than thirty-five hundred pounds 

 per acre. That is for celery grown in double rows three feet apart, 

 center to center, double row system, requiring about sixty thousand 

 plants per acre. I find I can get quicker results by using a large 

 amount of fertilizer. The earlier I can get it, the more money I 

 can get from it. We can grow a crop of late celery with five hundred 

 pounds per acre. 



Mr. Greixer: What formula do you use.^ 



Mr. Greffrath: This year I used o-7-lO, and side dressed 

 with fish tankage. I find that fully as good as nitrate of soda. In 

 fact, I like it better. 



CAULIFLOWER AND CABBAGE 



Mr. Wilkix^sox': Do you grow cauliflower or cabbage on muck? 



Mr. Greffrath: I have never grown cauliflower. I tried to 

 get in touch with a gentleman who had. I tried it myself twice and 

 made a failure. 



