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manure as are dissolved in water, and the finer the manure 

 is the more readily can water penetrate it. 



A man who is unfortunately short of manures can mate- 

 rially increase the capacity of 'what he has by working it over 

 until it is very fine. 



When short of a supply of animal manure, guano and 

 good phosphates, where the soil is already in good condition 

 can be used with success, provided the season does not prove 

 to be too dry a one. From eight hundred to a thousand 

 pounds of Peruvian guano and from ten to fifteen hundred 

 pounds of the best phosphates should be used. The fa- 

 mous fertilizer formulas of Prof. Stockbridge have generally 

 done so well I should be willing to try them on an acre of. 

 Carrots, were I short of other manures. 



There is another matter concerning our manures which 

 requires attention ; if they are too fresh or crude they will be 

 apt, if applied to our long growing varieties, to drive the 

 growth too much into the top of the Carrot, to the loss of the 

 root, giving us tops to our knees with roots about the size of 

 anoe handle. It is important therefore, when used liber- 

 ally, that they should be somewhat decomposed — that the 

 mixtures should be composts, as far as the time will allow, and 

 not mere mixtures. To the shorter varieties the crude ma- 

 nure may be applied with a degree of safety. Here let me 

 note a fact that I think is of general application in farming, 

 viz. : — that a style of manuring that will drive tall growing 

 varieties of vegetable nearly all to tops or vine, with dwarf 

 varieties of the same kind will work admirably. The Pea is 

 a very good illustration ; to get a good crop of Dwarf Tom 

 Thumb, manure liberally, but the same quantity applied to 

 the taller sorts would drive them excessively into vine at 

 the expense of the crop. 



Don't make your compost heap on the ground where 

 the crop is to grow, for the result will be no crop where the 



