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SOME INFORMATION ABOUT 
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BARIUM- 
PHOSPHATE 
AN ALKALINE FERTILIZER 
Containing 
28% PHOSPHORIC ACID 
7% BARIUM SULPHIDE 
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material and its use on various 
crops. Carloads and less. 
NITRATE OF POT ASH 
Analysing 
42% ACTUAL POTASH 
15% AMMONIA 
One ton of this material contains as 
much Potash as 1750 lbs. Sulphate 
of Potash and as much Ammonia as 
1650 lbs. of Nitrate of Soda, 3400 lbs. 
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Containing 32% Phosphoric Acid 
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Notes By Prof. Massey 
Growing Asparagus from Seed 
You advocate sowing asparagus seed 
in manured trenches rather than trans¬ 
planting roots. How deep should seed 
be planted, and how soon after planting 
can I expect to make cuttings? What 
variety and how much seed per 100 ft. 
would, you. suggest planting in this lo¬ 
cality? When should thinning he started? 
Eden, N. Y. t. w. 
I think that I have described my 
method of growing asparagus some time 
ago in THE Tt. X.-Y. But a long experi¬ 
ence has shown that, people do not read 
suggestions for any crop unless it is 
in answer to their own inquiry. For a 
garden lied dig trenches 15 in. deep and 
•’> ft. apart. In these trenches place old 
rotten manure, filling the trench half full, 
packed down. Cover with three inches 
of soil and sow seed thinly in a row 
in this. When plant tops are ns long 
as your finger thin them to two feet 
apart. Cultivate clean, gradually filling 
in the soil around the plants till level. 
Fse side applications of nitrate of soda 
twice during the season to push a rapid 
growth. Cover heavily with stable manure 
in the Fall and dig in in the Spring and 
ridge soil slightly over the rows with the 
garden hand plow. Cultivate clean and 
again urge the growth by side dressings 
(not touching the plants) of nitrate 
of soda. You can probably cut some 
fairly good stalks the second Spring. 
Manure every Fall and cultivate clean 
every Summer. In your section stop 
cutting when market gardeners there atop. 
Here we stop June 10. As to varieties, 
there is little difference. Palmetto seems 
less liable to disease, hut f can take seed 
from wild asparagus that grows plentifully 
along our salt water estuaries and make 
as fat stalks as any. Big asparagus is 
a matter of culture and feeding. 
Crossing of Potato Tubers 
A claims that by cutting out and insert¬ 
ing eyes of one potato into another, he 
can get them to cross and thus secure a 
different variety. B claims that potatoes 
only cross through the flower, and the po¬ 
tato eyes planted will produce the variety 
they were taken from. Of course there 
will he a mixture in the hill corresponding 
to the eyes from the different varieties. 
What do you say? G. w. it. 
Denver. Col. 
That the insertion of eyes of one po¬ 
tato into another will make a cross is 
pure nonsense. The inserted eye may 
grow, and the eyes in the interior of the 
potato may grow. But they will not mix 
or cross. The first Early Rose potatoes 
I ever saw were three for which I paid $1 
to Mr. B. I\. Bliss, a New York seedsman, 
who sent them out. Someone broke into 
the package en route and out out every 
eye. But as the outside eyes are only the 
terminal buds of the cluster of branches 
inside the mass of the potato, f cut the 
potatoes just as though the spaces from 
which the eyes had been cut were buds, 
and every piece grew, for the potato is 
full of embedded buds, or eyes. But none 
of them will cross with another variety. 
The only way to cross plants is through 
using the pollen of one variety or species 
on the srigmatic part, of the pistil of an¬ 
other. and even then it may only excite 
seed-making without a real cross. 
Peach Rot and Curculio 
Can you tell me what is the matter 
with my trees? I have several peach 
and pear trees and one Gold Drop plum. 
They bloom strongly, but soon the fruit, 
begins to wilt. Some on one side, one- 
half or one-third, will mature fairly well. 
The others will drop and some hang on 
until next Spring. The plums will rot be¬ 
fore they mature. The trees are 12 or IT 
years old and hear fruit every year. 
Luray, Ya. w. s. 
Your peaches are affected by the brown 
rot and your plumg by the curculio. The 
best, treatment for the peaches will be to 
spray them with self-boiled lime-sulphur 
wash. Put 5 lbs. of flowers of sulphur 
in a barrel. Then make up the sulphur 
into a paste and add it to the lime. 
Then start the lime to slaking, and when 
it is completed add 25 gallons of water. 
Spray the trees with this at once, and 
again after the bloom is off, and a third 
time after the fruit is the size of the end 
of your little finger. 'or the curculio on 
the plum mix one part of calcium arse¬ 
nate in two parts of air-slaked lime, and 
dust the tree well with this with a blow 
duster, and repeat it if washed off. 
This is the only way to 
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Expensive — wasteful. 
Cultivation is easy after 
stumps are blasted out. 
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