Show fertilizer for young orchards must be rich fertilizer rich in nitrogen la Is recommended for or the young orchard it if tho trees are beginning to bear it la Is a good idea to linit built most of the nitrogen and add more potash and phosphate the quantity to be added will be determined by the fertility of tho the soil if one la Is planting the orchard with wilh an ail inter crop the fertilizer should be added just after the first spring plowing tills this will afford tile tho fertilizer an all opportunity to help the inter crop as well as the young trees experiments prove that it la Is not a good practice to apply heavy applications of commercial fertilizers in the immediate vicinity of the roots it Is in fur flir more desirable to broadcast the fertilizer among the rows good stable manure that Is free from weed seed geed Is always desirable it may be applied any time with every asgur assurance ance of success many practical orchard men apply it early in the spring and then disk it into the soil others simply put it on the ground and leave it there from one to one and one hau half tons to the acre may be used with no danger from injuries if one does not have trough fertilizer to go around when applied heavily it should be spread tightly better a half ton than none at all to the he acre |