20 CAPITAL. 



We have used as much as seventy-five tons of 

 dried blood, or sugar-house scum, in a single season ; 

 ■when this is broken finely, and composted with horse- 

 manure and woods earth, it is a powerful fertilizer 

 for all kinds of crops. 



Wood-ashes are always highly esteemed, but of 

 late years the supply has been very limited. Un- 

 leached wood-ashes are worth from forty to fifty 

 cents per bushel ; for fertilizing purposes, using ten 

 to twenty bushels to an acre. A top-dressing of lime 

 every third year, thirty or forty bushels to the acre, 

 spread broadcast, and harrowed in just before plant- 

 ing, pays handsomely. 



Every available substance that will make manure 

 should find its way to the compost heap or hog-pen, 

 to be worked over, and thus add to the capital for 

 the garden ; on this will greatly depend the success. 



Of the concentrated fertilizers now in general 

 use, both for the kitchen and market-gardens, are 

 finely-ground bone, Peruvian guano, superphosphate 

 of lime, and last, but not least in value, fish guano. 

 The required quantity of these will depend on the 

 condition of the soil. Besides the main supply of 

 yard-manure, we use annually from three hundred 

 to one thousand pounds to an acre, and find that 

 such an application of a pure article pays well. 



Capital. — With the farmer, the laying out of a 

 kitchen-garden should be of the first consideration. 

 In spare moments a fence can be put around the 

 garden, which should be located convenient to the 

 dwelling. With a full supply of the leading kinds 

 of vegetables, farmers could board their help for 



