How to bring Land under Tilth 



good wide trench. Not only does this enable the soil 

 to be thoroughly turned and broken, but it also affords 

 facilities for burying manure, rubbish, &c. Keep the 

 ground level and work along the plot one spit at a 

 time not with three or four, as is often done, for by 

 this means the difficulty of keeping the ground level is 

 greatly increased, and there is no saving in time. The 

 best way to learn to dig properly is to watch an adept 

 spadesman at the work. Digging is said to be one of 

 the best physical exercises possible if not indulged in 

 too much, and especially if the position of the hands on 

 the spade can be frequently reversed. Never dig ground 

 when it is very wet, or when frozen or covered with 

 snow. The best season at which to dig most soils, but 

 especially those of a very retentive character, is during 

 the autumn ; so that the winter rains may the more 

 readily drain away, and the rough lumps be broken up 

 by successive frosts. In such cases it will need also to 

 be turned over with a fork immediately before planting. 

 With light soils this course is not needed. If the soil 

 be of such a nature that it can be well turned over 

 with a fork, then by all means use that tool in prefer- 

 ence to a spade, for it is certainly lighter work, and 

 those who consider this a lazy plea may be justly termed 

 ignorant of true economy, which militates equally against 

 a useless expense of energy as of coin. 



Disposal of Rubbish. 



It is a self-evident truth that everything has come 

 from the land and everything will return to it. It is 

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