The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-10

kept the rust in a large degree from bed
which would have been inoculated if
had not been for the barrier There is {
French variety of asparagus which seem
to resist the rust. The rust appeared thi
year in Michigan for the first time, al
though no plants from the east were re
ceived into that state
| Experiments have shown that sulphur
best prevents the sweet potato soil rot
Manure seems to add to the disease, and
commercial fertilizers are the best to use.
Five years experiments with club roots
on turnips in field have been made.
Various applications of lime were made to
the field. No hope of success can be OBJ
tanned from surface treatment-as spray
ing-as the trouble is below the surface
The best results were obtained where
thirty bushels of lime were applied
to each acre, an it is believed that lime
is a specific for the disease However, it
must not be concluded that the remedy is
good for all root plants. 1t is only good
for cabbages, turnips, radishes and allied
plants. The turnip which grows mostly
out of the ground is the least attacked
with the disease
As to asparagus rust next year, Dr. Hal
sted said it was hard to say how much
there would be. He did not advise the
treatment of salt.
On Thursday the Nominating Commit
tee reported the following officers, who
were unanimously elected:
President. 5. b. Ketcham, Pennington vice
secretary, H. l. Budd, Mount Holly treasurer,
Charles L. Jones, Newark Executive com
mittee-J B; Ward, Lyons Farms; e. P. Beebe
Blackwell, T1tusvllle; j. b Rogers Newark
Fruit committee-Charles Black, Hightstown
B. R. Clifford, Delaware, Warren county
Samuel c. DeCou. Moorestcwn, Burlington
county; William Il. Goldsmith. Newark
Hiram t. Jones, Elizabeth, Union county
F.. c. Gable, Verona, Essex county. Vege-
table committee-WiIliam Reid. Tenent,
Monmouth county Joseph Burt. Bridgeton,
Cumberland county; j. L.. Lippincott, River
ton. Burlington county. Legislative commit
tee-J. B. Ward, Lyons Farms !; s, b. Ketcham.
Pennington; Franklin Dye, Trenton, Dele
gate to State Board OF Agriculture for two
years, George De Camp, Roseland, Essex
county.
The address of Professor E. B. Voor-
bees, Director of the New Jersey Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, was interest
ing. The subject was ''The Use of Fertili-
zers for Orchards and Small Fruits. "
The speaker said that he knew it paid to
fertilize peaches. He had personal know
ledge of an orchard where the average
yield on an average soil was 60 bushels to
the acre. On the part where the fertili-
zers were employed the yield was 1853
bushels. The fertilized trees were able to
stand unfavorable conditions better than
the Others and bore profitable crops four
years longer.
The trouble with many was the differ
ence of understanding as to what fertili-
zers are. They have general idea that
fertilizing results in an increase but spe-
citic ideas were needed. A statistical sur
vey of the fruits of the State show an in
definite knowledge on the subject
The speaker said that judicious use of
yard manure was good, but that it did not
supply the proper material We don't
realize the character of the growth that
we are trying to secure We fertilize for
corn and get direct growth With the
apple, for instance, we fertilize for fruit
and not wholly for the tree Barnyard
manure will make the tree, but it is too
one-sided a fertilization for the fruit. 1t
only develops the wood and the leaf.
We have to consider what is the proper
fertilizer and the characteristic of the
fruit we have to develop. Some trees are
slow growers and capable of appropriate
ing the nourishment that they require,
but when the fruiting time comes they
need fertilizing.
With small fruits that grow quickly,
there is greater necessity for fertilizing.
The principal lack of the soil is nitrogen,
phosphate and potash. While nitrogen is
useful it must be used with caution.
What was wanted was an abundance of
phosphate Leaf and stem are made by
nitrogen. Phosphoric acid stimulates the
seed and ripening tendency Potash
facilitates the transfer of the juices from
one part of stem to another If we have
an undue development it is an evidence of
the lack of some constituent AS nitrogen
makes leaf and stem, this undue develop
ment would indicate lack of phosphate
and potash.
Apples and pears and those trees that
make a long growth had better have min
erals than nitrogen, up to the time when
fruit appears. Peaches and plums, which
develop very early, need not only minerals
but the judicious use of nitrogen. The
latter has to be fed so that it does not pro
duce a continuous growth Peaches want
not barn manure, but nitrogen.
For rich soil good fertilizer is acid
phosphate, muriate of potash and ground
bone. Far poorer soil II parts of the
first named to one of each of the others.
Smaller fruits and bush fruits require a
larger amount of fertilizer They must
have an abundance of minerals. Plants
that grow quickly require an abundance
of phosphoric acid. When the plant is
well started it needs nitrate of soda or or
ganized fertilizer to produce a normal de
1t was difficult, the speaker
said, to give advice to apply to all cases.