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plowing or spading, about thick enough to jusfc color the 

 surface, or about as thick as sand or sawdust is strewn on 

 a floor. This quantity is ucel broadcast by sowing on 

 the ground after plowing and deeply and thoroughly har- 

 rowing it in ; when applied in hills or drills, from 100 to 

 300 pounds should be used to the acre, according to the 

 distance of these apart, mixing well with the soil. 



When well-rotted stable manure is procurable at a cost 

 not to exceed $3 per ton, delivered on the ground, 

 whether from horses or cows, it is preferable to any con- 

 centrated fertilizer. Eotted stable manure, to produeo 

 full crops, should be spread on the ground not less than 

 three inches thick (our market gardeners use from fifty 

 to seventy-five tons of well-rotted stable manure per acre, 

 when no concentrated fertilizer is used), and should be 

 thoroughly mixed with the soil by plowing. 



The manure from the chicken or pigeon house is very 

 valuable, and when composted as directed for bone dust 

 and guano, has at least one-third their value. Castor-oil 

 pomace is also valuable in about the same proportion. 



PouDRETTEisthe name given to a commercial fertilizer, 

 the composition of which is night soil, and dried swamp 

 muck or charcoal dust as an absorbent. It is sold at 

 about $12 to $15 per ton, and at that price may be equal 

 in value, if too much of the absorbing material is not 

 used, to bone dust at $40 per ton. 



SALT has little or no value as a fertilizer, except as a 

 medium of absorbing moisture ; for experience shows 

 that soils impregnated by saline matter are no more fer- 

 tile than those inland out of the reach of such an atmos- 

 phere. 



MUCK is the name given to a deposit usually largely 

 composed of vegetable matter^ found in swamps or in 

 hollows in forest lands. Of itself it has usually but little 

 of fertilizing property., but ? from its porous nature, when 



