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To economize the quantity for present use as much 

 as possible, a partial application, that will serve tem- 

 porarily, may be made along a line of five or six fur- 

 rows in width, thoroughly plowed in, and inter- 

 mingled with the soil. After the holes are dug along 

 this line, well-rotted manure should be strewn in them, 

 and covered with soil. Occasionally, as the hole is 

 being filled over the roots, more manure should be 

 well pulverized and shaken in, but in all cases, in such 

 a manner as to prevent its direct contact with the roots. 

 In deepening a soil for any purpose, it must be remem- 

 bered, that as the quantity of earth to be enriched is 

 greatly increased, a much larger amount of manure 

 will be required. If it be desired to increase the 

 depth of a soil of nine inclies to eighteen, and the 

 manm-e is thoroughly intermixed to that depth, it will 

 require more than double the quantity of the latter, 

 which would be needed to fertilize the first nine inches 

 of depth, as the subsoil is nearly devoid of nutritious 

 matter. But, as the escape and loss of this is upward 

 into the atmosphere, the deepened soil will retain the 

 volatile constituents. of manure much longer than a 

 shallow one. 



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It is a general truth, that the manure that will 

 produce a good crop of corn or potatoes will perfect 

 a crop of fruit ; but while special manures are to be 

 jealously criticised and tested by experiment, still 

 something should be learned from the special demands 

 of the plant. In the ashes of the pear and apple wood 

 or fruit, and in the potato stalk and tuber, a very 



