38 — How to Make the Garden Pay. 



owners of a family cow, poultry, and other animals, from black- 

 smith shops, etc., can be had for the hauling, or at a mere 

 nominal price. A dairyman, three miles from here, has great 

 heaps of old cow manure which he is glad to sell for 30 cents a 

 one-horse load (say a ton) or 50 cents a two-horse load (say two 

 tons). Often the nearby gardener has quite a bonanza. The 

 opportunities are too good to be missed. When work is slack, 

 and roads good, the time cannot be put to better use than for 

 hauling manure, day after day. Put it on thick ; it will pay. I 

 usually buy my manure supply from the Buffalo Stockyards. I 

 have to pay more for it than is asked by the dairyman already 

 mentioned. But the station is only half a mile from the place. 

 I find it too expensive to have to send three miles after a load 

 when we have other work to do. 



