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manure, no matter now rich the soil may be thought to be. An illustration of this 

 came under my observation last season. One of my neighbors, a market gardener of 

 twenty years' experience, and whose grounds have always been a perfect model of 

 productiveness, had it in prospect of running a sixty foot street through his grounds j 

 thinking his land sufficiently rich to carry through a crop of cabbages without manure, 

 he thought it useless to waste money by using guano on that portion on which the 

 street was to be, but on each side sowed guano at the rate of twelve hundred pounds 

 per acre, and planted the whole with early cabbages. The effect was the most marked 

 I ever saw ; that portion on which the guano had been used sold off readily at twelve 

 dollars per hundred, or about one thousand four hundred dollars per acre, both price 

 and crop beins; more than an average ; but the portion from which the guano had been 

 withheld hardly averaged three dollars per hundred. The street occupied fully an 

 acre of ground, so that my friend actually lost over f 1,000 in crop, by withholding 

 $60 for manure. Another neighbor with a lease only one year to run, also unwisely 

 concluded that it would be foolish to waste manure on his last crop, and so planted 

 and sowed all without ; the result was, as his experience should have taught him, a 

 crop of inferior quality in every article grown, and loss on his eight acres of probably 

 $2,000 for that season." 



LIQUID MANURES, 



Are very valuable and so easily obtained in those sections, where manure is high, with 

 but a trifling cost, that we wonder that more do not see its value and take advantage 

 of it — especially those who have their small truck and fruit gardens near the large 

 cities. One very good plan to obtain such is to arrange under the eaves of the barn 

 or out-houses, a three cornered trough, say two feet deep and two feet across the top, 

 one end raised a little higher than the other, and at the lower end sink a hogshead. 

 Fill this trough up with street scrapings, shoe and harness makers' scraps, bones 

 pounded up, ashes, cleanings from privy vaults, offal from tanneries, &c. Mix these 

 all together in the troughs, and over all scatter a quantity of sand. Then, as it rains, 

 the water running off from the eaves of the building, will fall into the troughs and 

 soaking through to the bottom, will pass off into the hogshead at the lower end, thus 

 making the choicest of liquid manures. There are other methods for making such, 

 but the above must prove the sinplest of all, and requires no carrying water. 



For more extended instructions about manure, read The FRUIT RECORDER — 

 a monthly, noticed in another part of this work. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



There is no fruit that is grown so successfully over so large an extent of country — 

 no fruit that adapts itself to so many different soils and climates, and so universally 

 relished, as the delicious strawberry. It does seem very strange to us that so many 

 families unnecessarily deprive themselves of this healthy luxury — especially those who 

 have plenty of land to plant them on. 



Many are deterred from planting out a bed, with the false idea that it is too much 

 trouble and work. Now, we claim that we can grow a bed on the same piece of ground 

 for years, with no more trouble or work each year than so much ground planted to 

 potatoes. There are sorts, like the Jenny Lind and Downer, that will stand neglect, 

 and yield good crops year after year, on the same ground ; but we do not wish <e con- 

 vey the idea that we recommend such culture, but wish to impress it on the minds of 

 all, that the better the culture, the better the crop. Remember the old adage, " A stitch 

 in time saves nine," and that there is no branch of business this applies to more than 

 in the cultivation of this f rait. It is easier to cultivate and hoe a plantation four times 

 over, when there are no weeds, than once if weedy ; therefore hoe soon after setting 

 the plants, and as often as possible afterwards. 



There are sorts that are better adapted to extreme temperature and localities than 

 Others. * We shall endeavor to show tht success of each prominent sort in different 

 localities, anf 1 where each originated. 

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