Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1920-06-04 | Page 3 | Nitrate of Soda is Needed

NITRATE OF SODA IS NEEDED Two Pounds Per Tree Increases Vigor of Peach and Yield of Fruit Materially. In experiments made to determine what fertilizers are best to apply to peach orchards, the Ohio station has found that nitrate of soda is most necessary. The amount to use varies for different orchards, but In the station sta-tion experiments two pounds per tree have Increased the vigor of the tree and the yield of fruit materially. Acid phosphate is next in importance to nitrate of soda, especially upon clay soil. I'll is fertilizer gives little or no return unless used with nitrate of soda or some other nitrogenous material. ma-terial. Potash Is the least Important of the three, and when used alone on trees lacking nitrogen and phosphoric acid may prove positively injurious. The results of experiments in apple orchard fel l illzat Ion In southern Ohio differ from those found in treating peach orchards in that The apple orchards or-chards require all three of the fertilizing fer-tilizing elements to secure the most prof'r.alile results. Most of tin- re-luven.'ition re-luven.'ition tests in apple orchards have been conducted on very infertile soils.