
Do Your Vegetables 
LEFT: Much deserved popularity has 
come to Great Lakes lettuce because 
of its high quality and outstanding 
ability to head in midsummer. 
BELOW: Most popular variety of the 
bright, smooth white parsnips is the 
Hollow Crown pictured here. Roots 
are six to eight inches long. 
Have Jhat Commanding Quality? 
Commanding quality in your vegetable 
crops means high nutritive value whether 
you eat them or sell them. This command- 
ing quality thus goes far beyond appear- 
ance in the garden, on your table or in the 
package. 
» Your soils are the key to commanding 
quality in the market place or at home. 
They are the sources of those minerals 
which make vegetables health foods. 
» Soils which produce vegetables of com- 
manding quality are fitted for the job. 
They are provided with organic matter 
from strong perennial sods, from annual 
green manure sods, from manure. They are 
limed regularly to provide calcium (and 
magnesium), and to control acidity. They 
are supplied with these fertilizer nutri- 
ents: Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid, Potash, 
and Borax (when needed). It is necessary 
to get this basic foundation fertility worked 
deeply into the soil before the crop is 
planted. 
» When you choose fertilizer for your 
next spring’s vegetable crops, select from 
these grades: 10-10-10 for leafy crops; 
8-24-8 or 5-15-5* for seed and fruit 
‘RUMFORD PRESS 
CONCORD.N.H. 
crops; and 8-16-16 or 5-10-10 for root 
crops. 
» Well-fitted soils plus Eastern States 
vegetable seeds plus your choice of these 
fertilizers plus your good management will 
give you vegetables for home use or sale 
which have that commanding quality. 
» *5-15-5 is available only from the York, Penn- 
sylvania, plant. 


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