Salt Lake Herald | 1890-06-15 | Page 5 | Leached Ashes

Loichcd A hcs The agricultural editor of The Now York World has the f following concerning concern-ing wood ashes It is common to consider con-sider leached ashes of little or no value as a fertilizer from tho fact that tho potash has been abstracted and therefore its use at the best can only bo for its mechanical effect on stiff and hard soils and thus many persons neglect to haul it out on cultivated lads at all While it is true that nearly all the potash pot-ash has been taken out the lime adv ad-v o acid etiU remain and as 1l tt j ic g k c r < ashes contain more lime than potash it often occurs that leached ashes win on I certain soils produce highly beneficial effects almost a marked a thoso of un leached ashes on another field This 1 arises from the fact that tho soil of the 1 field on which it was used already contained sufficient potash but was deficient de-ficient in lima and fcient lio ad phosphoric acd