No. 10. 



Soap-suds — Compost. — Jump up Girls. 



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It is worthy of remark that in No. 2, where 

 no manure was used, the yield was 60| 

 bushels — in No. 3, where 150 loads of un- 

 fermented manure were used, the yield was 

 70 bushels — a gain of 9| bushels to be as- 

 cribed to the manure; in No. 4, with the 

 like amount of unfermented manure, and 

 25 loads of fine manure, the product was 

 80 bushels — a gain of 10 bushels to be as- 

 cribed to the fine manure — showing that 

 one load of fine is worth more than six 

 loads of coarse manure. While No. 6, 

 which was manured with the fine only, 

 yielded 0.5^ bushels — a gain of 5| bushels 

 to be ascribed to the same amount of fine 

 manure. Showing that one load of fine is 

 worth about three and a quarter of coarse 

 manure. But the land on which No. 6 was 

 raised, was not as rich as Nos. 2, 3 and 4, 

 owing to the fact that it was so situated in 

 the field that it had not been as highly ma- 

 nured in those years gone by, when manure 

 was only drawn out of the barn-yard "to 

 get rid of it." Nos. 2, 3 and 4, were nearer 

 the gate, and had been served about alike, 

 and furnish the fairest test of the value of 

 the different kinds of manure. 



Some of the results obtained by these ex- 

 periments were unexpected. The highest 

 yield is very far below the great crops that 

 have been reported. I know not why a 

 hundred or more bushels to the acre were 

 not raised on No. 4, with manure both on 

 top and under the furrow, amounting to 150 

 loads of coarse and 25 loads of fine to the 

 acre ; and that too, along side of land that 

 without any manure, yielded more than 60 

 bushels to the acre. 



I purpose the next year to plant all of this 

 ground with corn, and carefully measure the 

 product of each piece, with a view of learn- 

 ing the eflfects of this manuring for the se- 

 cond year. Geo. Geddes. 



Soap-suds— Compost. 



This is, perhaps, one of the most power 

 fully fertilizing articles produced on a farm 

 It contains the food of plants in a state of 

 almost perfect solution, and consequently in 

 a condition the most easy to be appropriated 

 and assimilated when applied as a stimulant 

 to vegetable life. In order to avail himself 

 of this important source of wealth, the farmer 

 should provide himself with a tank of a size 

 sufficient not only to contain the suds made 

 in the family, but a large quantity of other 

 materials, such as sods, turf, bones, ashes, 

 straw and muck; — in short any substance 

 not actually and necessarily prejudicial to 

 vegetation, and which may, partly by imbib- 

 ing the liquid, and partly by chemical action 



become an ingredient in the food of plants. 

 The tank or cistern provided for this pur- 

 pose, should be proportioned to the size of 

 the family, and so situated as to admit of an 

 easy approach with the cart. It should also 

 be so constructed as to be exposed as little 

 as possible either to the washing of heavy 

 rains, or the influence of the sun and air. 

 We have often been surprised on visiting 

 the premises and farm yards of some who 

 have enjoyed an honourable reputation for 

 economy in other matters, to find them clut- 

 tered and encumbered with useless rubbish, 

 which a little time, properly devoted, would 

 have reduced to a healthy and valuable as- 

 sistant in the fertilization of a perhaps un- 

 fertile and unproductive farm. Bones, shells, 

 chips, are all excellent ingredients in the 

 compost heap, and will well reward any 

 person for the trouble and expense of ga- 

 thering them up. It is oflen the case that 

 soil in low places by the road side, which 

 receives the wash from the highway, may 

 be converted into a valuable stimulant sim- 

 ply by throwing it into heaps. This, how- 

 ever, should be done in the fall, as the wash 

 during the summer adds greatly to its stimu- 

 lant powers, and the operation of the frost 

 in winter conduces greatly to its improve- 

 ment, by thoroughly breaking up and disin- 

 tegrating the earthy particles composing the 

 mass. Such soil, or indeed any other, mode- 

 rately indued with fertilizing properties, and 

 the powers of imbibing and retaining moist- 

 ure, may be greatly increased in value by 

 being placed in a situation where it will re- 

 main open to the action of rain and the elas- 

 tic ffases. — Maine Cultivator. 



Jump up Girls. — An eastern editor, in 

 reading a lecture to the girls, discourseth 

 thus: "Up with you! — Don't sleep away 

 this beautifiil morning. Mary, Ellen, Abbey, 

 Phebe, Sarah, Eliza, Jane, Caroline, Han- 

 nah ! and all the lazy girls arouse — wake 

 up — rise and see the sun shine, and brush 

 away the dew from the beautiful grass. 

 You not only lose the best portion of the 

 day, while you linger in bed, but you de- 

 press your spirits and contract sluggish hab- 

 its. What if you are sleepy"! — Jump out 

 of bed — fly around — stir about, and in a few 

 moments you will be bright as larks. We 

 wouldn't give a straw for girls that won't 

 get up early in the morning. What are they 

 good for? Lazy, dumpish creatures — they 

 are not fit for wives or companions. Our 

 advice to young men who are looking out 

 for wives, would be — never select a girl who 

 dozes away the precious morning hours. She 

 may be a help-eat, but will never prove a 

 help-meet." 



