CONTENTS. 



PREFACE 3 



INTRODUCTION : 19 



CHAPTER I. 



DRAINAGE. 

 What Soils need Drainage — Signs — Effects of Stagnant Water upon various Crops — Shortens 

 the Working Sea.son — Shortens the Ripening Season — Effects of Drainage — Removes 

 Stagnant Water from the Surface — Removes Surplus Water from under the Surface — 

 Lengthens the Working Seasou — Deepens the Soil — Warms the Under Soil — Equalizes 

 the Temperature — Prevents Injuries by Frost — Prevents Injury from Drought — Increases 

 the Effect of Manures — Prevents Rust in Wheat and Rot in Potatoes — Other advantages 

 — Material for Drains — Open Drains — Brush — Stoue Drains — Tile — Why the best — Depth 

 of Drains — Draining Tools — Time to make Drains — Laying out — Digging^ — Mains — 

 Minors — Joints — Heads — Outlets — Obstructions — Uow discovered — How remedied — 

 Ditching Machines — Mole Drains, etc , etc. — Draining Prairie Laud... 31-46 



CHAPTER II. 



PLOWING. 



Objects — Pulverization — Wet Soils — Deep Plowing — Shallow Plowing — Increase your Acre^ 

 Lapped Furrow Slices — Double Furrow Slices — Flat Furrow Slices — Trench Plowing — 

 Benefits of Trench Plowing — Subsoil Plowing — Benefit.-^ — When not applicable — Fall 

 Plowing — Winter Plowing — Spring Plowing — Which the best — Why — Stubble Plowing 

 — Plowing Clay Soils — How to Plow — Heavy and Light Plows — Breaking Prairie — 

 Harrowing — Rolling — Clod Crushing 47-51 



CHAPTER III. 



MANURES. 

 Waste of Manures — One Thousand Dollars a Year to waste — Liquid Manure — Human Excre- 

 ment — How to save it — Its value — The Barnyard — More waste — Urine — Manure Wells- 

 Soiling — Horse Manure — Liability to " fire fang" — Loss of Ammonia — Its value — How to 

 prevent it — The Piggery — Hen Dung — Liquid Manure alone valuable — Application to 

 the Soil — Surface Manuring — Fall Manuring — Spring Manuring — Protected and unpro- 

 tected Manures — Peat — Muck — Straw — Leaves — Bones, and how to Dissolve them — Dead 

 Horses, etc. — Ashes — Sawdust — Soot — Soap — The Sink Spout and Privy — Red Clover as a 

 Manure — Other Green Manures — Their value — Plowing them under — Make the most of 

 your Manure — When to use Fertilizers — Guano, the same thing as Hen Dnni; — Lime — A 

 lecessity — Its application — Gypsum — Plaster of Paris — Do Fertilizers exhaust the Soil — 

 fjomposts — Drainage necessary to give effect to Manures — Last words 52-09 



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