MANURES AND FERTILIZERS 



a handsome lot of uniform, fine compost. It 

 should always be built up in layers, each layer 

 spread out so as to cover the preceding 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 produce the proper 

 fermentation. There are innumerable ways of 

 increasing the bulk and enhancing the quality 

 of the compost heap, which can best be mastered 

 by the study of any good manual on the subject; 

 and we do not aim here at superseding any of 

 these treatises. Our object is mainly to call 

 attention to this means of utilizing all manner 

 of decomposable trash, and converting it into 

 valuable plant food. There is an old saying, 

 that " anything that grows in one summer will 

 decay before the next"; and this hint may be 

 profitable as a guide in collecting vegetable matter 

 for the compost heap. 



The presence of the loam, or loamy mixtures, 

 in the heap is quite important. It has been said 



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