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admits, no doubt, that it is desirable to get as much 

 barnyard manure as possible, but he says that he 

 does not know how he can possibly keep more stock 

 on his land, which will not support what he already 

 has as they ought to be supported. How then is he 

 to keep any more? We shall see later on that it is 

 a very simple trick. 



GREEN CROPS FOR MANURE. 



This chapter might properly be called "Soiling 

 Our Plants." And it is to help answer the question, 

 How enrich our farm in a sure and economical 

 way? It may not be convenient for some of my 

 readers, in adopting soiling with a view of obtaining 

 a greater amount of barnyard manure, to be able to 

 buy the additional number of animals that may be 

 supported by such a system of feeding. He may 

 also be, like the author, opposed, even if he had the 

 means, to buying commercial fertilizers. Not only 

 that, but one of the first lessons taught the person 

 who attempts to soil is the importance of having 

 rich soil on which to grow his soiling crops. If he 

 cannot buy the cattle to make the manure, or if he 

 cannot buy the manure, he can at least grow it, and 

 even after he has the cattle bought, he will always 

 find it greatly to his advantage to have on hand as 

 much green manure as possible, to plow under every 

 year. Although this subject perhaps belongs further 

 on under the management of soiling crops, I have 

 decided to put it in here with the question of man- 

 ures in general, especially as it fits in very well after 



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