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yard manure annually ; or if concentrated fertil- 

 izers, such as bone-dust, guano, etc., are used, 

 they should be harrowed in at the rate of twelve 

 hundred to two thousand pounds to the acre. 

 But while this is true of land from which two or 

 three crops of vegetables are taken during the 

 season, it is also true that many kinds of fruit 

 would not bear such high stimulating. It seems 

 to me that my Clark and Philadelphia raspberry 

 and the blackberry vines would grow like ' ' Jack's 

 bean " under such treatment. As it is, they aie 

 prone to make too large a growth. But Ant- 

 werps, strawberries, and most vegetables require 

 high feeding, and every year the cost of enrich- 

 ing the ground must be considerable. In our 

 vicinity also we have to pay a good round sum 

 for manure the prices varying from two dollars 

 to two and a half per load, and I have paid as 

 high as three dollars. For loads I must take 

 what is brought, and they have varied in weight 



