Siinniicr Meeting. 71 



Mr. Alorrill. — I would rather consider about lo per cent, potash, 3 

 per cent, nitrogen and from 4 to 6 per cent, of phosphorous right. If a 

 person understands plant feeding and the principles, if he has a piece of 

 land that grows poor wood, it is easy for him to see that the land needs 

 nitrogen ; if he has land that grows wood as high as his shoulder, he needs 

 no nitrogen. 



D. A. Robnett.— Do you think that we could produce our nitrogen 

 cheaper by growing cowpeas ? 



Mr. Morrill. — Certainly. I would not advise anyone to buy nitrogen. 

 Low'peas furnish enough nitrogen for the soil. Our reason in Georgia 

 for fertilizing the cowpea, is to get a more luxuriant growth, and-in this 

 way we get more nitrogen. 



THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 8 P. M. 

 THE HOME YARD. 



At a late meeting of the Missouri Valley Horticultural Society, Mrs. 

 Asa Chandler of Randolph, Mo., read a paper on the above subject, 

 which is particularly interesting, because it tells what Mr. Chandler and 

 lierself have been doing in trying to clean up and beautify a neglected 

 yard. It should be said, perhaps, that their farm is part of an addition 

 to Kansas City, which was laid out in the days of the boom, when it was 

 thought the town w^ould extend far north of the Missouri River. This 

 fact accounts for the great number of cisterns which Airs. Chandler says 

 they were compelled to fill up. Her paper follows : * 



It has been said there is nothing new under the sun. I believe I 

 am justified in contradicting this statement by saying all things are new 

 as they appear. Every season a new season. Whilst it may be a repeti- 

 tion of the old, yet it is new. Our little grandson called the morning 

 glories the "Good morning flowers." So every morning is a good 

 morning — a new morning. And hence my subject, although so many 

 papers have been written, read and printed concerning it, yet the subject 

 has not grown old. It is a subject particularly fitting to us now, having 

 given considerable time and thought to it in trying to bring a wild, un- 

 sightly ground under subjection and have an attractive home yard. 



Please pardon me if I tell of some of the things that we have done. 



First, husband with pitchfork and I with hoe made an attack on dried 

 sunflower stalks. Where our yard now is was literally covered with 

 these, from twelve to fourteen feet high. Some may say, "You with a 



