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penditures. We have no doubt that if all the labor was put 

 onto one half the land, the net profit would be increased. 

 These desirable results cannot be obtained by indifferent 

 methods of cultivation, or a limited amount of fertilizer. 

 All plant food must be saved and utilized, not, at is too 

 often the custom throughout the rural districts, thrown 

 out onto the ground, to be washed, leached and dried 

 until it is hardly worth the cost of hauling onto the field. 



The first requisite for successful farming in N. E. is a 

 good high open barn cellar, with cement bottom, high 

 and open, that a tip cart may be driven in and dumped. 

 When the agricultural chemist tells you that the liquid 

 excrement of the animal is of about twice the value of 

 the solid, you will comprehend the vital importance of the 

 cement or clay puddled bottom, where the perfect Com- 

 posting of all refuse can be done. Frequent forking over 

 will hasten and assist fermentation, which will kill many 

 of the foul seeds, and save you much labor in the field. 



If after each forking over, the pile should be sprinkled 

 with a little land plaster, much of the ammonia would be 

 prevented from going to waste. 



By this method you will obtain a perfect plant food, 

 at much less cost, than from the venders of commercial 

 fertilizer in the market. The best results from com- 

 mercial fertilizers is obtained by applying in the hill or 

 while the crop is growing, a little at each time of culti- 

 vation. 



Whatever kind of fertilizer is used, it should be thor- 

 oughly incorporated with the soil as soon as possible 

 after its application. 



Within a few years we have noticed certain agricultural 

 writers advocating the method of hauling green manure 

 direct from the stable in winter, and spreading it on the 

 ground or snow, as the case may be. This method may 

 be penny tvise, but it is certainly pound foolish. 



A little time and labor may be saved, but it is indeed a 

 small compensation for the great loss by drying winds 



