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Dreer’s Reliable 
Spring- Blooming 
Bulbs 
D O NOT miss the joy of having a 
bed or border of Bulbs next Spring. 
Plant them this Fall as early as you can and success is 
certain. 
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ieties and offer in our Autumn Catalogue splendid 
collections of Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, Crocus, 
Lilies, etc., etc. 
I he hall is also the time to set out Roses, Hardy Per- 
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logue also gives a complete list of seasonable seeds, plants 
and bulbs for out-doors, window-garden and conservatory. 
Mailed free to any one mentioning this magazine 
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HICKS NURSERIES, Box M Westbury, L. I„ New York 
The Garden Magazine, September, 1920 
GROWING APPLES 
A E TER twenty years with experimenting 
•CV with fertilizers in Apple orchards the New 
York State Experiment Station at Geneva leaves 
the subject pretty well in the same condition as it 
was before it began its work. Thus the carefully 
observed results over this long period of years 
do not seem to justify the use of fertilizers on cul- 
tivated orchard soil that is naturally well supplied 
with plant food — an average good soil. On thin, 
unfertilized soils or in sod orchards the results 
may be quite different. Contrary to popular 
conception manure did not cause any appreciable 
increase in yield or growth but additions of com- 
plete fertilizer caused a small increase in yield 
so on the whole, the conclusion would seem to be 
that if your land is fairly good, and cultivation is 
fairly good you don’t have to worry about arti- 
ficial feeding; and there is some comfort in that! 
HEN MANURE AS FERTILIZER 
N O FARMER would think of throwing away 
30 pounds of nitrogen, 20 pounds of phos- 
phoric acid and 18 pounds of potash which he 
might find on his place. Rather he would treas- 
ure it for its great fertilizer value. Yet this is 
exactly what 2,000 pounds of ordinarv hen 
manure contains, according to the soil fertility 
workers at the New York State College of Agricul- 
ture. Hen manure has the most fertilizer value, 
weight for weight, of all the animal excrements, 
yet in most gardens little attention is paid to 
saving or using it. 
Where ordinary farm manure has a fertilizer 
value of $4.50 a ton, poultry manure in a thor- 
oughly dry condition is worth Si 5 a ton, and at 
prevailing prices the value is much larger. Even 
when produced in small amounts, such material 
is well worthy of careful preservation. 
Poultry manure should be allowed to drv as 
quickly' as possible, and then should be kept dry. 
In this condition it will lose but a small amount 
of its valuable constituents. Like ordinary 
manure, it ferments rapidly when moist and will 
lose a large part of its nitrogen, worth on the 
market 25 to 30 cents a pound. Since much of 
its potash, phosphoric acid, and nitrogen is 
soluble, this manure may suffer greatly from 
leaching. 
Caustic lime should never be mixed directly 
with poultry manure, as it tends to liberate ni- 
trogen as ammonia. Poultry manure is rich in 
nitrogen and low in phosphorus. These two 
conditions may be corrected by diluting and 
reinforcing the manure as follows: 
To ten pounds of the manure add six pounds 
of sawdust (or some similar dry material) and 
four pounds of acid phosphate. This gives a 
fertilizer carry ing 1.5 per cent, of nitrogen, 4.5 
per cent, of phosphoric acid, and 1.2 per cent, of 
potash, or about the same proportion of plant 
food elements as are found in a y-9-2.5 mix- 
ture, but only one fourth as concentrated. 
If it is not thus reduced but is used in its 
natural state the obvious correlation is to use it 
sparingly. Nothing is better for light dressing 
around plants that are “top crops” — that is, 
plants grown for. their leafy portions or heads 
such as cabbage, lettuce, etc. But use every bit 
of it — and use generally as well as for the 
special crops. 
