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Show FERTILIZER AIDS APPLE CROP Fruit Production Increased 1,000 Per Cent, Say Experts at Miohigan Conference. Michigan and Ohio speakers at the annual convention of the Michigan Horticultural society agreed that fruit production cjtn he Increased greatly with the aid of fertilizers sometimes to the extent of 1,000 per cent. Experiments Ex-periments showed that without fertilizer fer-tilizer each tree produced 60.1 pounds of apples ; with the use of four pounds of sulphate of ammonia per tree, the orchard averaged 233.6 pounds of apples per tree; with five pounds of nitrate of soda per tree, 209.2 pounds of fruit ; with ten pounds of acid phosphnte per tree, 209.4 pounds of fruit, nnd with a complete fertilizer, consisting of four pounds of sulphate ammonia, five pounds of acid phosphate phos-phate and three pounds of muriate of potash per tree, 403 pounds of fruit per tree. The cost of apples per 100 pounds with four pounds of sulphate of ammonia per tree was 16.1 cents; with five pounds of nitrate of soda, 21.3 cents; with ten pounds of acid phosphate, 16.8 cents, and with seventeen seven-teen pounds of complete fertilizer 20.6 cents. |