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Show Soil Favorable for Fertilizer Quite Important That Conditions Con-ditions Be as Near Ideal as Possible. In using fertilizers that cost :.",() or $10 u ton it is important that general soil conditions should be as favorable as possible, points out A. V. Illair, soil chemist at the New .Jersey agricultural agricul-tural experiment station. A soil that is strongly acid may lim-I lim-I it the growth of certain crops to such an extent that the fertilizer can have little effect. It is a waste of money to use fertilizer on such land. When the I acidity of the soil is eliminated by the j use of lime, good results may be expected ex-pected from the fertilizer. Fertilizer for Vegetables. Vegetable crops that grow rapidly require a fertilizer that has a large percentage of its nitrogen in rapidly available materials. Such a fertilizer furnishes soluble nitrogen as fast as the plants need It. The soil chemist advises that con i-entrated fertilizers should be mixed thoroughly with the soil or else put nn in two separate applications. If fertilizers of this type are put in close contact with the seed there is danger nf injury through burning. Drainage Is Important. Sometimes the land is so wet thai crops can make only very poor growth, fertilizer or no fertilizer. Until satisfactory satis-factory drainage is provided it is a waste of money to use high-priced fertilizer fer-tilizer on this kind of land. On land that is very sandy and poorly poor-ly supplied with organic material growth of crops is often limited by the water supply. Heavy applications of fertilizer cannot produce good crop's under these difficulties, first of all, organic material must be added to the soil ; then the fertilizer application may profitably be gradually increased. |