Our Plants. 



BARN-YARD MANURE. 



The manure heap is the farmers' bank. His 

 drafts will invariably be honored at any banking 

 house in proportion to the amounts of the deposits 

 in his compost pile. But it is a mistaken notion to 

 think that manure of one kind is as good as another 

 kind of similar bulk. The foregoing table shows 

 that a ton of clover hay contains $9.75 worth of 

 plant food, a ton of cornmeal only $2.60, while 



