Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1914 — Fertilizers for Asparagus. [ARTICLE]

Fertilizers for Asparagus.

Recent bulletin from Washington states that the common fallacy that salt is an essential fertiliser for this crop is no longer adhered to by modem growers. The natural habitat of asparagus is the seashore, and it was reasoned therefore, that salt was beneficial to it. In modern commercial practices bods of asparagus have' yielded as well without salt as with It Salt, of course, aids in preventing the growth of weeds, but it la believed that oxoopt in the small garden patch, whore Intensive culture Is practiced and whore largo amounts of stable manure afro applied each year. It, may not bo especially useful in the field culture ad asparagus.