Show nitrogen as fertilizer fine in apple orchards horticulturist G 1 P potter of the new hampshire station con aldira straight nitrogen the most valuably a fertilizer tor for apple orchards at least for the first years A crop of bushels to the nere acre he be says amys takes away from the soil 32 pounds of phosphorus while an acre of soil to tho the depth of bf four feet contains pounds of this material potash on on the other hand Is used ten to twelve times as fast ns as phosphorus but the aval available lable supply in fri the average soil Is two to ten times as grent great basing his conclusions on experiments in progress for 20 years professor potter recommended the use lase of only nitrogen carrying fertilizers for orchards complete fertilizers may inny have some value lie he thinks in stimulating the growth of grass in an orchard for mulching purposes but experiments peri ments in new indicate that such a method metho dof of pro producing dicing a mulch Is relatively expensive i th the e only fertilizer trept treatments menta a ln the test plots which obviously benefited the trees were applications application i of nitrogen carrying the foliage of the trees trees not nat given nitrogen wig was yellow the hark bark had bad a reddish past fast blosso blossoms mW failed to set iet fruit r to dorily rily trul fruit t pr production b haq poor doff and the apples were small alth although bugli of good color |