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SECTION V. MANURES AND MANURING 



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1. INTRODUCTORY. Misleading Experiments The Object of Manuring 137 

 2. KINDS OF MANURES - - 145 



3. COMPLETE MANURES. Farmyard Manure or Dung Storing Farm- 

 yard Manure Value of Farmyard Manure A Warning 

 Green Manuring Leaves as a "Green Crop" Roots as a 

 Manure Guano Fish Guano Seaweed Soot Blood 

 Manures Night Soil and Poudrette Rape Cake and Rape 

 Dust Malt Dust or Kiln Dust Wool and Shoddy Hair, 

 Feathers, Skin, Leather Waste, Greaves - - 146 



4. NITROGENOUS MANURES. Nitrate of Lime Nitrate of Soda or 

 Chili Saltpetre Nitrate of Potash Sulphate of Ammonia 

 Nitrolim or Calcium Cyanamide - - 154 



1 5. PHOSPHATIC MANURES. Bones Superphosphate Basic Slag 



Wood Ashes, &c. Limphos - - 156 



.6. POTASH MANURES. Kainit Muriate of Potash Sulphate of 



Potash - - 158 



7. CALCAREOUS MANURES. Chalk Marl Gas Lime Gypsum (Cal- 

 cium Sulphate) - 159 



1 8. MISCELLANEOUS MANURES. Magnesium Salts Iron Salt, or 



Chloride of Sodium - - 161 



.9. VALUATION OF MANURES - - 162 



.10. MIXING MANURES - - 164 



SECTION VI INSECT PESTS 



Introductory Greenhouse Pests Fumigating Vaporizing Cyaniding 

 Outdoor Pests Seeking the Cause Life-history and Habits 

 of Garden Pests Methods of Prevention Chrysalides Table 

 of Insect Pests - 166 



SECTION VII GARDEN FRIENDS 



Ladybirds The Devil's Coach Horse The Violet Ground Beetle The 

 Tiger Beetle Frogs, Toads, and Lizards Hawkflies Ichneu- 

 mon Flies Lacewing Flies Ear-shelled Slug Spiders The 

 Weasel Centipedes - 197 



SECTION VIIL FUNGOID DISEASES 



Introductory Fungoid Diseases of Fruit Trees Fungoid Diseases of 



Vegetables '- - - 203 



