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GARDEN PROFITS 



THE SIMPLE ART OF USING MANURE 



This question is easy. Use it (i), well decayed, 

 (2), abundantly and (3), worked well into the 



To make liauld manure, hang a basket of 

 coarse burlap or wire netting In the top of a 

 barrel. In this put horse or cow manure, 

 then pour water through it and let all the 

 value seep through without clogging up the 

 spigot. Keep the barrel nearly full all the 

 time and the solution will maintain Its 

 strength and effectiveness 



soil. Abundantly doesn't mean a few wheelbarrow 

 loads, but about all you can get. And from fifty 

 to one hundred tons per acre is not too much, though 

 that represents about a ton and a half on a patch 

 25 feet square. That, I say, is good, but, if you 



