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rely on them alone and 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 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 in well, so that 

 the sprouting seeds shall escape absolute contact 

 with the unmixed fertilizer 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 fish- waste is readily procurable), but also 

 produced, under judicious management, from 

 everything in the shape of decomposable material 

 that 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 be 



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