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sionally, adding a little ashes and lime. Animal manures 

 should be composted in a separate heap, to which ashes and 

 lime should not be added, as they would do harm by setting 

 free the ammonia. In the latter case, charcoal-dust, plaster of 

 Paris, and vegetable mold, leaves, turf, or swamp-muck should 

 be used. 



One who has never tried the experiment of carefully hus- 

 banding the elements of fertility which accumulate about a 

 house, yard, and garden will be astonished at the annual amount 

 and value of the compost which may, with very little trouble, 

 be thus manufactured. Try it.* 



* For a more complete exposition of tlie whole subject of Soils aud Ma- 

 nures, see " The Farm." 



