| Show wood ashes an as a fertilizer the uso use of wood ashes as a fertilizer should bo be more generally understood hard wood ashes are much richer in potash than soft wood ashes and are relatively more valuable leached beached wood ashes are hardly worth more than the labor of spreading on oil the land as a rule but on a light sandy soil they have a tendency to compact which is is an aid to its physical condition but it does not act asa as a manure manuro wood aphesis ashes is almost a 1 special fertilizer for all fruit crops and only needs the tile addition of a little nitrogenous manure to make it complete comple tc they should never bo be mixed with such nitrogenous manure us as lien manure and other animal excrements for they start chemical consequence the nitrogen ia is thrown off oil in the form of ammonia and la is wasted wastel it hes form often a cheap source of po potash t is I 1 L |
