ILLINOIS HORTICULTURAL ^OCtETY. 



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Time forbids my running through the analysis of many interesting 

 things. 



I have said that the most of our soils contain the greater part of the 

 elements needed for fertility, but they need to be placed in favorable 

 circumstances. They also need a few additions, which we get from ma- 

 nures as well as from the atmosphere and the Hoating gases. Every kind of 

 mulching, as well as grass and weeds left on the ground is manure. 



Here let me give the summing-up analysis of the manure of one 

 cow for one year in geine and salts: A cow that eats twenty-tour lbs.- 

 of hay and twelve lbs. of potatoes, or that amount of food per day, will 

 in one year of 



Geine, (decomposed organic matter), 



Carb. of Ammonia, 



Phosphate of Lime, 



Plaster, or Sulphate of Lime, 



Carbonate of l.ime. 



Common Salt, 



Sulphate of Potash, 



Total, 5,134 " 



I have now arrived at the point upon which I could begin to build 

 and know what 1 was about ; and here comes in the motto on the seal 

 of the State Horticultural Society : ''This is an art which does mend 

 nature." And here comes in also the lumliling of the soil, draining, 

 mixing, heating, and cooling; the practical of it, and if rightly managed, 

 the profitable working of it also. A little more close observation — a 

 little more mental labor will give an increase of interest and of pleas- 

 ure both to the agriculturist and horticulturist. 



