MANURE BACKWARD FRUIT TREES.
If you have any "tired" or backward fruit trees that give a promise of a crop of fruit this season, help them along with a dressing of manure. There is nothing better than fowl manure for this purpose, and it can be taken straight out of tho houses and scattered around ■under the trees. Do not, of course, put it on 60 as to hide the soil' and form a thick cake, which will keep air from the roots. Scatter it on and work it into the soil with the fork or the hoo. If you do not keep fowls, a little sulphate of ammonia should bo applied, say, one_ to four ounces per tree, according to size. Although not usually considered as necessary tho soil under and around fruit trees should bo as well cultivated as that around any other crop.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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146MANURE BACKWARD FRUIT TREES. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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