Stable Manure

The necessary plant food is best supplied by stable

manure applied at the rate of ten loads per acre for a light

application to twenty loads per acre for a heavy application. This

amounts to a load for from two to five mature trees. Such an

application will not only go far toward supplying the necessary

nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash, but especially if coarse will

add considerable humus and improve the physical condition of the soil.



Except on land which washes badly, manure should be applied in the

fall and winter. It should not be piled near the trunk of the tree but

spread uniformly over the entire surface of the ground. It is

particularly important to spread the manure under and beyond the

farthest extent of the branches as this is the most important feeding

root area of the tree.