SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 



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 winter, 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 reckoning 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 appli- 

 cation of manure, the second amount is the one to 

 be used; and where three are to be grown, use the 

 first-named amount. 



It is very wasteful to expose manure unneces- 



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