PREFATORIAL NOTE 



This little book was projected in order to help 

 those engaged in cultivating the soil to increase 

 their returns. It will tell little to the highly 

 successful grower. The other day one who probably 

 sends more food stuffs to market than anybody else 

 in Great Britain, told me his account with a single 

 firm of chemical manure manufacturers averaged 

 about £8000 annually, and he never lays out money 

 without seeing how he will get it back. There is 

 no reason why every one who cultivates the tiniest 

 garden plot should not share in his knowledge and 

 its advantages. It is the aim of this book to enable 

 him to achieve this. Mr. Vendelmans, the author, 

 writes not only from "the book," but from his 

 experience as a highly successful cultivator. In 

 simple terms that he who runs may read he has 

 described the nature and constitution of manures 

 of every type, explaining the manner of their appli- 

 cation and to what crops and at what seasons of the 

 year. Any one who habitually uses the volume for 

 reference and advice will, if he be working for a 

 livelihood, be enabled to add to his gains. If an 

 amateur, he will have the satisfaction of an abundant 



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