46 — How to Make the Garden Pay. 



season ? " This can have but one answer. It stands between 

 the use of manure and the unsatisfactory outcome of the business. 

 No manure — no paying crop. But in case of pending removal, it 

 will always be safest to use the quick-acting commercial fertilizers, 

 and nitrate of soda in preference to the slower and more lasting 

 stable manure. The nitrate of soda is all and entirely utilized for 

 the next crop, or leached out of the soil, and of the commercial 

 fertilizer only an inconsiderable part will be left to increase the 

 successor's crops, if the soil is as thoroughly cropped all 

 through the season as it should be. Stable manure is apt to 

 donate only a part of its plant-foods for the production of the 

 same year's crops, and much of the expensive material would 

 probably be left for the benefit of the renter's successor. 



