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Wholesale Prices 
Juno 10, 10 
Prest-O-Lite Prices in 
Balance with Prices 
of Farm Produce 
Notes From New England 
Prest-O-Lite prices stand plates that mean long life to a 
fair and square with the battery, and make it the best 
prices a farmer gets when he all-weather battery, 
sells in today’s market. Prest-O-Plates are one of 
A Prest-O-Lite Battery is a the reasons why 87 manufac- 
product he can buy knowing turers use the Prest-O-Lite 
that there is no loss between Battery as original equip- 
the price you get when you ment. 
sell your products. Bear in mind that every 
As a matter of dollars and Prest-O-Lite Battery is guar- 
cents, his produce today goes anteed by the regular Prest- 
as far buying a Prest-O-Lite O-Lite guaranty, a liberal spe- 
Battery as it did in the pur- cific obligation, rounded out 
chase of any standard bat- by a policy that says the user 
tery during the highest price must be pleased. 
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prices for Prest-O-L.te Bat- value- The trustworthy ,tame 
of the oldest service to mo- 
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torists. 
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of light cars, $19.90. _ _ , r „ . . 
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*12 volt battery—Dodge, Max- , ... . ,, • •. 
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Preparing Asparagus for Market 
*Slightly higher prices prevail on the 
Pacific Coast and other distant points 
pretty exact bookkeeping, as well as a 
careful study of business methods. 
Composting Manure. — Harold Tomp¬ 
son. in charge of the Market Garden 
Field Station at Lexington, was asked 
the other day how to use acid phosphate 
in connection with manure, lie advo¬ 
cated making broad flat piles of the dress¬ 
ing and covering the top with acid phos¬ 
phate as each layer was put on. He 
would not have ihe top of the heap 
mounded at all, but rather concaved, so 
that the rain would be caught and held 
until it seeped through the manure to the 
bottom of the pile, carrying the acid 
phosphate with it. and giving it a proper 
distribution. As for the amount of acid 
phosphate to use, lie advised HO lbs. to a 
cord, or 25 lbs. to a ton. The phosphate 
helps to prevept the escape of the am¬ 
monia, while adding the elements of phos¬ 
phoric acid which manure lacks to make 
a properly balanced plant food. 
Conserving Ammonia. — one large 
market gardener follows another practice 
to conserve the ammonia, lie covers his 
manure heap with refuse from the fields. 
This refuse itself decays, but in the 
meantime makes a cap for the pile which 
excludes the air and so preserves the am¬ 
monia inside. The extent to which the 
ammonia is held liy the use of acid phos¬ 
phate is illustrated in the experience of 
a greenhouse man who followed the plan 
outlined and spread the manure in a 
house where he was to grow lettuce. He 
used the same amount as usual, and al¬ 
most immediately put in the lettuce. As 
a result he lost the whole crop. It had 
not occurred to him, or he perhaps had 
not believed it possible, that enough am¬ 
monia would be retained to create such 
an effect. Otherwise lie would, of course, 
have delayed planting somewhat. 
Cover Crocs and Their T’ses— Mar¬ 
ket gardeners, like other farmers and gar¬ 
den makers, are interested in any plan 
that will cut down their fertilizer hill. 
That is one reason why they are giving 
attention to green muni)ring, and why 
the study of green manure is being car¬ 
ried on extensively at the Lexington Sta¬ 
tion. While green manuring may not he 
very feasible on market gardens of small 
area close to the cities, it can be made of 
practical use on the larger vegetable 
growing establishments further away. 
Mr, Tompson speaks favorably of Tim¬ 
othy and clover where there is plenty of 
time to grow them, lie recommends rye 
when the ground is to he cropped into 
August, but stipulates that rye, like other 
crops grown for this purpose, must he 
cut before it gets very high. Very satis¬ 
factory trials have been made with llu- 
ham, the new annual Sweet clover. This 
clover seems likely to he of considerable 
benefit to market gardeners who seek to 
improve their soil by its use. Inoculation 
is recommended for lllibam, although not 
poriments that spinach would Winter 
over nicely on new land, while it would 
often fail on old soil. Winter vetch and 
clover were said to have shown similar 
results. A wholly satisfactory explana¬ 
tion could not be given, but there seemed 
to he. a belief that the amount of avail¬ 
able phosphoric acid in the soil had 
much to do with the matter. This ques- 
tion offers some new lines of investiga¬ 
tion, and should result in practical ex¬ 
periments to see whether the theory 
works out ou the average farm. 
H umvi\« and Letting A spa rages.— 
Asparagus is rather slow in coming on 
this season, hut is now making a good 
yield. It pays well when grown commer¬ 
cially, and there are few better crops for 
the home garden. With a little attention 
an asparagus bed will keep on producing 
for many years, and the ground where 
the asparagus is planted can be utilized 
after the season is over for raising chick¬ 
ens. In fact, many growers allow their 
laying hens to roam over the asparagus 
field, as they serve to eliminate t he 
beetles, while doing little damage. It is 
to he regretted that more seedsmen have 
not started the Washington strains of 
asparagus, or, for that matter, the Read¬ 
ing Giant, These are the kinds to use 
when they ran bo obtained, because of 
their freedom from rust. There is one 
distinct advantage in growing asparagus 
in the home garden aside front the sav¬ 
ing in cost. Much of the product found 
in the markets is cut far under the 
ground so that the base of the stalk is 
white. The average person, at least in 
New England, wants green asparagus, or 
that which has been cut just below the 
surface. Many people do not realize that 
asparagus loses its quality almost as 
quickly as green peas. To be at its best 
it should he cooked within a few hours 
from the time it leaves the field. It is 
customary to stop cutting asparagus as 
soon as green pens appear. The effect is 
supposed to he detrimental if cutting is 
continued after the last of June. Vet I 
know of one man in New Hampshire who 
cuts continually through July ami most 
of August, lie follows ibis practice be¬ 
cause he caters to a Summer hotel trade, 
and can get a high price when asparagus 
is out of season. The only result, he 
says, of this hard rutting is that the bed 
does not last as long as would'be the case 
otherwise. That doesn't bother him 
greatly, because it is an easy matter to 
start a new bed. He doesn’t have to do 
this oftener than every live years. Peo¬ 
ple mJio are particularly fond of aspara¬ 
gus can have it practically all the year 
round if they keep on planting so as to 
have new roots coming along. It is very 
easily forced in a warm cellar through¬ 
out the Winter. In fact, there are gar¬ 
den makers who have asparagus every 
month of the year. E. I FARRINGTON. 
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