Emlong’s Superior 
Advantages and Equipment 
Ideal Location and Soil 
Our nurseries are located in the heart of Southwestern Michigan's 
famous fruit belt. Here we have an ideal climate for growing Nursery 
Stock. Long growing season, frequent rains, sub-zero winter weather. 
These conditions make for extreme HARDINESS and VIGOR in our 
Nursery Stock. 
We have selected over 750 acres of the finest soil available. 
Every acre is rich, mellow, sandy loam—high and well drained, pro¬ 
ducing a MARVELOUS ROOT SYSTEM on plants and trees. This 
insures RAPID GROWTH and LONG LIFE in stock after you trans¬ 
plant it. (No sappy, black-rooted, low-ground stock on our farms). 
Constant; Soil Improvement 
We don't stop with the ideal facilities Nature has provided! 
Every acre is brought to the PEAK OF EFFICIENCY with an EXPERT 
SOIL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. Every field is studied and planned 
three years in advance! Heavy stands of cover crops are turned 
under to enrich the soil, carloads of manure and other fertilizers 
applied every year. OUR LARGE ACREAGE makes it possible to 
rotate our fields EVERY YEAR (an advantage small nurseries lack). 
This means DISEASE-FREE STOCK, with EXTRA VITALITY. It also 
means that you get only YOUNG STOCK which is the ONLY KIND 
FOR SUCCESSFUL TRANSPLANTING. 
Unrivaled Equipment 
It is impossible to show you even a small part of the tremendous 
amount of equipment required to grow nursery stock RIGHT. We 
combine brain-power, man-power, and machine-power to run this 
big business. No other nursery has such COMPLETE and SPECIAL¬ 
IZED equipment as Emlong. We employ over $100,000 worth of 
modern machinery. Note the special 30-ton tractor plowing five 
furrows at once; sub-soiler which pulverizes soil twenty inches deep 
(to encourage long root growth); multiple-row cultivator; multiple- 
row sprayer (used regularly to control insects and disease). Many 
other machines are used in plowing, fertilizing and digging stock. 
Covered, wind-proof trucks haul plants from fields to packing house 
without exposure to the drying elements. Grading and packing 
buildings are equipped for efficiency. 
All propagating stock is HAND-SET at extra cost; all hoeing, 
grading, cleaning, pruning and tying done by hand—the safest way. 
This work requires 50 to 150 men. These operations are supervised 
by EXPERTS OF LONG EXPERIENCE. All these things are necessary 
to produce stock of EMLONG SUPER-QUALITY. Large scale produc¬ 
tion under scientific methods enables us to put the best of HEALTH, 
VIGOR, GROWING AND FRUITING ABILITY into our stock. No 
other nursery can match these advantages and facilities—so how 
can you hope to get stock of EMLONG QUALITY elsewhere? 
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COPYRIGHT. 1935. EMLONG’S NURSERY 
