Ovcrhaiiling and Distributing Mamirc. 39 



do not consider hog manure desirable for that crop. 



In the beginning of the winter this is teamed out 

 upon the fields where it is to be used ; the cellar is 

 then filled again, and its contents remain in it until 

 spring. All the manure which is drawn from the city 

 in the summer and fall is overhauled in the early wi;> 

 ter, and is again worked over in the spring before 

 applying it to the land. It will then be quite fine, and 

 fitted for nourishing any kind of crop. 



In distributing the manure, to put on twenty-five 

 cords to the acre, reckoning four tip-cart loads to the 

 cord, requires one hundred loads ; making three piles 

 to the load, we shall have piles twelve feet apart each 

 way. In applying twenty cords to the acre, still reck- 

 oning four tip-cart loads to the cord and three piles to 

 the load, we shall have piles twelve by fifteen feet 

 apart. In applying fifteen cords to the acre, with 

 loads and piles as before, we shall have piles sixteen 

 by fifteen feet apart. 



This last named amount is one which is seldom used 

 in a market garden, except where one crop is to occupy 

 the ground through the whole season. Where two 

 crops are to be grown with one application of manure, 

 the second amount is the one to be used : and where 

 three are to be grown, us2 the first named amount. 



It is very wasteful to expose manure unnecessarily 

 to sun and wind. Xever spread manure one day to be 

 ploughed in the next. 



It may not be amiss to mention, lest its importance 

 should be overlooked or under-estimated, the great 

 advantage of taking care, in spreading the manure, to 



