Manuring in the Hill — Composts, 45 



continuously, year after year; but if applied about 

 once in three years, with stable manure put on in the 

 meantime, they will be found of great value. For 

 cabbage and onions, which require a very large amount 

 of potash, ashes are especially suitable. 



For manuring in the hill, which is in many cases 

 highly advantageous, it is ordinarily preferred to use 

 guano, superphosphates, and the like, because of the 

 facility with which they can be put in ; care being always 

 taken to stir them m well, so that the sprouting seeds 

 shall escape absolute contact with the unmixed fertil- 

 izer — which would be destructive. 



Good, ripe, well-worked compost is also employed ; 

 often made from materials specially purchased to mix 

 up (like fish compost, made where tish-waste is readily 

 procurable ), but also produced, under judicious man- 

 agement, from every thing in the shape of decompos- 

 able material thit can be gathered up about the place. 

 And if due attention is given to collecting' together all 

 waste material — litter, leaves, weeds, and the like — 

 and stacking them in alternate layers with fresh loam, 

 or road-scrapings, the result will Le a handsome lot of 

 uniform, fine compost. It should always be built up 

 in layers, each layer spread out so as to cover the pre- 

 ceding layer uniformly; which will secure compost of 

 even quality. It should be protected from washing or 

 leaching by a rough covering of boards, so placed as 

 to shed the rains. 



Occasional layers of fresh dung, doses of lime and 

 ashes, and drenching the mass from time to time with 

 liquid manure, will enable the proper fermentation. 



