Holding and Increasing Fertility of Soil 



a great amount of room — a six by eight pen will 

 do and a paddock, with grass and fresh water, 

 which need not be more than two rods square, 

 and reasonable attention to sanitation will render 

 him a contented and unobjectionable member of 

 the family and a very savory and profitable mem- 

 ber, too, come butchering time. These three 

 things should go hand in hand; — A garden to 

 produce vegetables for the family; live stock to 

 consume the waste from the garden and live stock 

 to furnish fertility for the garden; these three 

 spell fertility for the soil and prosperity for the 

 family. 



Where the supply of manure is limited so that 

 the entire garden area cannot be covered, quite 

 as good returns may be secured by following the 

 plough with a load of any manure available, and 

 dropping it in the furrow that will correspond 

 with the planting row — if for corn, every three 

 feet of furrows, setting stakes to indicate the fer- 

 tilised strips. In a small garden fertiliser may 

 be trundled along in a wheelbarrow and shovelled 

 in with fork or spade. This is an excellent plan 

 in preparing ground for peas. 



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