The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-04-21
|EMORY OBTAINS
EXPERT ADVICE
State College Authority Tells How to
Prepare Soil for Tomato and
Berry Production.

n. J. Emory, manager of the Okla
hogan Valley Growers Cooperative as
| sociation, gave out the following
statement this week, for the benefit of
| tomato and strawberry growers of the
valley:
After visiting several of the straw
berry plantations in this district, l
have come to the conclusion that the
growers with a few exceptions are not
giving the strawberry fields the at
tentioA and fertilizer needed to get
results
1T takes care and work to get re-
suits, but when this is done in the
right way very satisfactory results
can be secured Knowing the Walla
Walla and Sunnyside districts. which
produce quite large tonnage of both
Strawberries and tomatoes, and know
ing the state experimental farm at
Pullman should be able to give us
some information governing this kind
OF crop grown under similar soil
and climatic conditions. | wrote the
college asking for all the information
they could give me, either by bulletin
here on this kind of crop.
DO not grow tomatoes on the same
ground as last year if you expect to
get results, if possible plow up field
of alfalfa or land that has been well
fedtilized for your tomato crop, give
the plants a fighting chance.
THE following is what O. M. Morris.
head of the department of horticulture
at Pullman, Wash, has to suggest in
regard to growing Strawberries and
tomatoes here
"April 10. 1922.
f" Okanogan Valley Growers Coop. AS
socian, Oroville, Wash
Attention: Mr.. n. j. Emory, Mgr
"Dear Sir: The best fertilizer that
you can use on strawberries and to-
matoes in your district is a heavy
dressing of some kind of decaying vege-
tation. like the manure and litter from
barn yards, strawstack bottoms, and
others of that type Next to that. plow
under a heavy crop of vetch. Yield
peas or alfalfa will give great i'm
provement in your soil condition. II
you use commercial fertilizers. us"
those which contain nitrogen.
THE tomato blight is not the result
of any chemical present or absent in
the soil Most of it is due to the actor
Of disease on the roots of the plants.
hn rh ic
valent in all of the Solanum family, in
Guiding the potato and tomato, and
is capable of very materially check
ing the growth of plants Other dis
eases also are undoubtedly influential
in reducing the vigor and growth of
the plants. You will find also, that the
nitrate of soda will give you best re-
suits on your Strawberries. In this ]
suspect you would find it best to drill
about like you would peas, in the irri-
cation rill along side of the rows of
strawberries. DO this before you turn
the water on. The material, if pulver-
lied, will dissolve quickly and soak
into the ground and will not be car
ried over to any appreciable extent by
irrigation water.
"'Walla Walla grows quite a good
many tomatoes, as they do tear Sun
nyside. Washington. but | have never
heard of any one having any improved
results from the use of phosphorus
fertilizers They do have wonderful
response in plant growth by planting
on soils that have been well fertalized
or have been devoted to field peas.
vetch, or alfalfa.
Yours truly,
80. M. NORRIS,
"'Head department of HOrticul-
tura "