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The True Story of William Armstrong : How a $2000 Farm Was Made Worth $20 000, 1919, p. 5

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5<br> They were fed by scattering evenly over the ground a moderate amount of well rotted compost manure, and fine ground bone meal and kept clean - <br>      Four rows of potatoes were planted between each two rows of trees seed planted five inches deep, and twelve inches apart in row, 1st row 3 1/2 feet from peach row<br>      Tomato seed was sown in the hot house Mar. 1st and transplanted from seed bed into larger bed four inches apart each way April 10th They were kept short and stockey by frequent cutting back, transplanted into open field May 20th. First shipment of ripe tomatoes July 2nd. The tomato and strawberry crops for three years were a wonderful success in quantity and quality. The crop was shipped by boat principally to M William and Everist Wholesale fruiters Toronto Ont. netting the grower remarkable cash returns for his investment - <br>      Eventually twenty give acres were planted with peach trees, intensive cultivation was kept up. Annual applications of six to eight car loads of manure compost bought from Marchmouh Toronto were applied to the Orchard during the winter months - <br> Also annual applications of several tons of commercial fertilizer such as muriate of potash, fine ground bone meal were applied to the orchard in the spring.<br><br>

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