Agricultural Experiment Station For 1886

Author : State Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365750376
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Seventh Annual Report of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station written by State Agricultural Experiment Station and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seventh Annual Report of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station: For the Year 1886 The experiments to show the effect of fertilizers upon the growth and productiveness of peach trees are successful, and are giving great encouragement to the cultivators as well as to the consumers of this luscious fruit. By the use of chemical fertilizers, especially of muri ate of potash, the trees are now kept in healthy growth and in bear ing condition for many years, in the very fields where formerly, without the use of fertilizers, the lives of the trees were limited to six or seven years. On unmanured soils the foliage of the trees turned yellow, great numbers of little suckers grew out on the branches, and the trees were said to have the Yellows and soon died. The good effect of fertilizers upon the failing trees is so marked that many cultivators of peach trees believe there is no such disease as the Yellows, and that their early failure is simply due to lack of proper plant - food. The experiments lead, too, to the inquiry whether many of the cases of plant and tree failure are not due to want of proper and suffi cient nutriment, rather than to peculiar diseases. It is certain that thorough and complete fertilization enables plants and trees to thrive, where, in other circumstances, they dwindle out a sickly life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.