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8 days' labor of team and man, in plowing and subsoiling, at 



$4 132 00 



3 days' labor of 3 men to loosen and remove rocks and stones, 



at $1 00 



1 day's- furrowing by double plowing 4 00 



27 days' deepening trenches, at $1 27 00 



20 days' planting stocks 20 00 



$92 00 



If (lonble the labor had been devoted to deepening 

 the soil, it would have been an economic expenditure. 

 Great care should be exercised in securing the trees 

 in straight lines, a^ a tree projecting from the row is 

 liable to injury from the plow. 



The soil must be dry and rich, and the use of that 

 common but vaguely defined term must not be mis- 

 understood. Properly expressed, the soil should be 

 fertile without having received recent applications 

 of strong manures. 



MANURES FOR NURSERY STOCKS. 



To stimulate a vigorous growth early in the season, 

 an application of from three hundred to five hundred 

 pounds of guano per acre is highly approved. It 

 should have been composted for a month previous to 

 use with forty times its bulk of well pulverized swamp 

 muck, which has been exposed to the frosts of at least 

 one winter after digging. This stimulating compost, 

 however, should be applied in the Fall, after growth 

 has ceased, well distributed, and plowed in on soils 

 otherwise in good condition. A strong and stocky 

 growth of trees will ensue, and as this energetic and 

 volatile manure will have exhausted its power by 

 midsummer, the young wood will ripen fully, and 



