The Prescott daily news., 1916-03-07


 or fertilizers applied in reasonable quantities. While it is necessary to put fertilizers near the trunk of the tree, yet the roots scatter pretty well over an orchard, and the plant food that happens to fall further away from the trunk is not lost
 A large crop of apples or peaches takes from the soil much plant food such as nitrogen, potash and phos- phoric acid, and unless this is sup piled from time to time, the trees will prove less fruitful and finally bear very little fruit, and what they do bear will be of poor quality. The ar gument that old trees in pastures bear good fruit is not sound, be- cause conditions prevail in many iso- lated places this way that cannot be duplicated in the orchard. Many times it is the natural leaf mold, woods earth, droppings from animals. and other materials carrying available plant food that make the fruit on such trees. Besides, such fruit is rarely ever as excellent and delicious as that grown in a well-kept orchard. Fruit, like all other kinds of field and garden crops, must be forced more or less to measure up to high stan dard. To force the fruit, and at the same time keep the land fertile, we must apply to the soil as much fertll- izer as the crop takes from it.
 Fruit trees demand in their growth fertilizer rather rich in potash and pnosphoric acid, but not very rich in nitrogen. It was found that the citrus trees in California at the Riverside Experiment Station grew better fruit and did better every way with com- plete fertilizer than with any single plant food element, or any incomplete combination It was also found that the acid requirements of these trees were more completely supplied with sulphate of ammonia than from any other nitrogen source.
 Many of the experiment stations izing orchards, but none quite so good as the Ohio station. F. H, Ballou. in charge of work with apples, says:
 ITO sum up the results in increased fruit production from the use of chemical fertilizers on the very thin orchard land in southeastern Ohio, taking into consideration all our diff ferent plots at the various places cov- ering 60 miles of country, we have the following:
 Average per acre, per year fertil. ized, 100 barrels.
 Average per acre, per year unfertil. iZed, A barrels.
 Gain per acre, per year, from fertil- ization 56 barrels.
 Cost of gain per barrel. per year IFS cents.
 This is the strongest endorsement for the use of commercial fertilizers in orchards that we h.; ve yet seen. and shows how 1t is possible to in crease the incomes from an orchard by the wise use of the proper kinds of the New Jersey Experiment Station recommends an application of 45O pounds of fertilizer per acre with peaches. Prof. Starnes of the Geor- gia Experiment Station tried many formulas at the Georgia station sey- eral years ago on peaches, and found that in every case the fertilizers paid MONEY GOES FOR GROCERIES.
 An interesting bit of testimony | comes from the section of Minnesota which recently became dry through what might be called an automatic application of prohibition to a region where no election was held to settle the question. namely. the enforcement of an old Indian treaty. Because of this action there is not now an open saloon in Itasca county, and as a result marvellous reformation has taken place. One year ago seventy | This year there was no beer. but the books show that seventy-nine tons more of groceries were consumed at this point than during the correspond | ing month of last year. The Mime | apolis Journal says that the records of the mining companies. which em- ploy the large population of foreign | CTS, show fewer layoffs among the ! men than ever before and the stores i report larger and more profitable busi- | ness from these employees.
 | 4 WISE GEAR.
 A German general, taken prisoner,