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Updated: May 14, 2025
I find that the amount an acre recommended by successful growers varies from 40 tons of well-rotted stable manure, supplemented by 1,000 pounds of complete fertilizer and 1,000 pounds of unleached ashes, to one of only 300 pounds of potato fertilizer. I think that in preparing a soil for tomatoes, as in selecting social acquaintances, the "new rich" are to be avoided.
In a more recent experiment, on a gravelly loam on one of my seed farms in Middleton, Mass., where two hundred bushels of unleached ashes were used per acre, three-fourths broadcast, I have had complete success, raising as good a crop as I ever grew the second year on the same land, without a single stump foot on half an acre.
By our method the stump is burned and the finest kind of unleached wood ashes containing lime to "sweeten" and potash and phosphoric acid to furnish plant food are spread upon the ground a few hours after the stumps are blown out.
The average would, however, be not above $7.50, and would depend not only upon the unleached condition of the material but upon the amount of sand mixed with it. If it is in a situation where sand blows very freely, it might not be worth over $4 or $5 per ton, possibly not that much. You have, therefore, to deal with a condition largely unknown.
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