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protection than anything else I have ever tried. I have pro- 

 tected tomato vines in this way and kept them bearing during a 

 month of freezing nights. The manure should be watched, and 

 more water be added, and possibly more manure, if the freezing 

 weather be very severe or of very long duration. 



"One man with a two-horse team will haul manure forty rods 

 and pile it so as to protect four or five acres of trees in a single 

 day; then, if he have a water cask with hose, to put on his 

 wagon, the wetting of the piles will be but the work of an hour 

 or two." 



