MUCK: ITS VALUE AND USE. 133 



food of the soil can be made available for plant use and food, 

 it will more than pay to dig, haul and use it. 



So notwithstanding the unfavorable opinions expressed, we 

 are not yet ready to discard muck from the list of paying 

 fertilizers, and our advice to every farmer still is to secure 

 an annual supply, where circumstances are favorable, and 

 although it will of course vary in value, according to its 

 location and composition, yet we honestly believe there is not 

 a muck deposit in Maine, within reasonable distance of culti- 

 vated lands, but is of more than sufficient value to pay for 

 applying it to the hungry fields, and especially to sandy, 

 gravelly and leachy soils which are so deficient in moisture 

 and vegetable matter. 



