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stable manure is to put it on at any season of the year, and to- 
spread it broadcast between the rows of trees, say about six 
feet from the tree on each side, and cover the ground. About 
twice a year I put on this manure, and with it about half a ton 
of dissolved bone to the acre. I use this for the reason that I 
get out of it the sulphuric acid necessary. I do not think there 
is a grove better than mine in the whole country. For five or 
six years I have used only stable manure and dissolved bone. 
I use stable manure all the year. This fall we had a great 
deal of broom sedge put in my stable to be tramped up, anl 
I used this. Those are the fertilizers that we use. 
W. G. Peck —The gentleman made the remark that he used 
dissolved bone in order to get the sulphuric acid. This is 
an important question as regards orange culture, and I hope 
that during this meeting that point will be brought out.. 
Mr. Montgomery —In dissolved bone you get quite a good 
deal of sulphuric acid. In the dissolved bone, I believe that 
the proportion of sulphuric acid—ihat is, the amount of sul¬ 
phuric acid to the ton of dissolved bone, is 600 pounds. When 
your land has much vegetable fibre such as you get in stable 
manure, dissolved bone is better than anything else. Now, if 
you use a phosphate rock you do not get the sulphuric acid. 
I do not know whether it takes 600 pounds, less or more; 
about 800, I think. I should say that the sulphuric acid would 
be of the same value regardless of the substance it was mixed 
with. You get a better fertilizer out of bone than you do out 
of rock. I think that Mapes does not use any rock at all. I 
think he advertises this fact. I know that sulphuric acid is 
sulphuric acid regardless of the place you get it, and no mat¬ 
ter what you mix with it. I used the Charleston rock a good 
many years ago, and gave it up as not a good investment. I 
have used acid phosphate with cotton seed meal, but settled 
down to stable manure. Do not disturb your soil very much. 
You can cultivate an orange tree too much. I plow my grove 
over in November every year, put on a good coating of bone 
and manure and turn the soil over, run the cultivator over it, 
and then do not disturb until next year. Bermuda grass 
growing near small trees is not a good thing, and does not 
help the tree at all, but after they get bearing it does them- 
good. 
C. A. Bacon —I have a white man working for me. The 
other day I made a remark about stable manure which applied 
to cow manure. He said: “We do not call cow manure stable 
manure.” He seemed to consider horse and cow manure alto¬ 
gether different. 
Mr. Peck —I call stable manure horse manure altogether. 
