Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-18
FARM AND GARDEN.
RESULTS OF sU,EN rfFIC AGRI-
CULTURAL EXPERIMENTS.
Reports of Timely Subjects From the
State Agricultural Experiment
Statiou-Strowberry Blight
Home Made Fertilizers.

Professor RI. Garman, Entomologist
and Botanist of the Kentucky Expert
ment Station, reports in Bulletin 81 Of
Chat Station u series of experiments
I'm the application Of Bordeaux mix
Surc to strawberry plants for the pre-
venton of leaf blight, from which he
draws the following conclusions:
I. Injury from strawberry leaf
blight can be largely prevented by the
use of Bordeaux mixture and eau
celeste, and to some extent by potassi.
UNI sulphidc and London purple.
2. Bordeaux mixture is much
superior to the o.hcr preparations
used.
3. Applications of Bordeaux mix
trre should be made as often as once in
ewo weeks. From the complete ex-
pssure of the leaves to rain. the mix
ture is removed from strawberry leaves
much sooner than from grape leaves
or those of trees.
4. Prepared according to the formula
of Buestone, g. pounds; lime, 80
pounds; water, % gallons; it may be
sprayed without the slightest injury
TO leaves.
.. Twenty-Five gallons of the mix
ture is sufficient for spraying during
one summer 1871 feet of strawberry
plants, as commonly planted in rows;
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bluestone worth S cents per pound,
and lime worth | cent per pound, fifty
six cents. BY buying materials in
quantity, this cost can be reduced.
6. A removal of the blighted leaves
in summer, without subsequent spray
ing, will increase instead of diminish
injury from blight.
HOME-MlXED FERTILIZERS.
The following notes ON the home
mixing Of fertilizers, taken from the
annual report of the Maine experiment
station, are as applicable to Ohio as to
Maine: The mixing of fertilizers on
the farm through the use of chemicals
and raw materials does not seem to
have been undertaken to any extent by
Maine farmers, although il is clearly
shown that Intelligent farmers of other
states, Connecticut for instance. are
finding il profitable to adopt this
method OF obtaining commercial man
ures. During the years 1887 and 1883
the Connecticut Experiment station
examined twcnty-onc fertilizers mixed
by farmers from chemicals purchased
by thems Ives aud the analysis shows.
I. These home mixtures compared
hvorably in composition with the best
factory made fertilizers.
.. The homo mixtures had Il satisfac-
tory mechanical condition.
3. The ingredients of the home
mixtures cost the consumers on an
average from 20 to So per cent. less
than if purchased in factory made
fertilizers. after allowing $3 per ton
for costing mixing.
1t is not claimed that all farmers
would find it profitable to mix their
own fertilizers from chemicals, but it
is believed that there are many farmers
in the state so situated with reference
to markets and transportation that
they could buy and mix chemicals with
profit. This could be better done, per-
haps, by an association of farmers, so
that by the purchase and transporta-
ton OF large lots at one time, IL saving
could be made in prices and frcights.
Ii any farmer or association of farm
ers is disposed to give this matter IL
trial, the station will advise, whenever
desired, as to the proper sele,-
uon OF materials, formulas.