Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1916 — Vegetable Ashes. [ARTICLE]

Vegetable Ashes.

Do not throw away any vegetable ash, for all ashes have a decided garden value. Some seem to have the Impression that trashy material returns ashes of little worth,, but the reverse ds often true. Ashes from cotton hulls have shown as much as 30 per cent of potash and sold for S4O a ton. Some weeds would prove equally rich. Tn addition there is always some phosphoric acid and a heavy per cent of lime. That most precious element, nitrogen, however, was all burned out, therefore these substances would prove of greater value if allowed to decompose in the soil rather than be destroyed by combustion. Ashes of deciduous trees, being nearly all hardwoods, are of more value than those from evergreens, for the latter are nearly all conifers —pines, cypresses, etc. ,