A Member: What fertilizer is good? Is bone meal good?
Mr. Record: Any commercial fertilizer is good, I think. Bone meal is good.
Mr. Crawford: Can you raise asparagus successfully in the shade or a partial shade?
Mr. Record: Well, I wouldn't want too much. I have shade on both sides of mine; it is a hedge. I notice it isn't near so good next to the hedge as it is out in the middle of the bed, although shade on both sides protects it from the wind and makes it hotter. The hotter it is, the faster it will grow.
Mr. Crawford: I asked the question because I have a west line shade several years old, trees are willow and box elder. Considerable of the ground is a loss to me, practically so, from that shade.
Mr. Record: I don't think it is a very good place for asparagus.
A Member: I would like to ask if a person on clay soil could use sawdust to work in?
Mr. Record: Horse manure with sawdust, we use a great deal of that, that is, planing mill shavings. That is all right. That will loosen up the ground some, but when it is turned over, of course, it will harden up again if there comes a good hard rain on it.
A Member: How many years have you maintained a bed?
Mr. Record: Why, it will go from twelve to fourteen years, although the place that I am on now, I know that was good for twenty-five or twenty-six. It is practically gone now, but for twenty years it was good. But of late years it won't run over twelve to fifteen.