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RE-SOILING 



become a part of the soil before the next plant- 

 ing season. Soil fertilized in this way will be 

 richer, moister, darker, than soil fertilized 

 solely by stable manure or commercial fertilizer. 

 Soils that contain enough plant food to supply 

 crops for a thousand years to come, are often 

 barren or yield but a niggardly crop. This may 

 be because they lack humus, which is the key 

 that unlocks the store of plant food in the soil, 

 and makes it available for the seeds and tender 

 rootlets. How much more humus may do, 

 we do not yet know, but every year fresh dis- 

 coveries are made, and if we are to be benefited 

 by them, we must get ourselves ready for the 

 new truths by using those already known. 



On his famous farm in Birmingham, Pa., 

 "Bob" Seeds plows his cowhorn turnips, tops 

 and all, into the earth in the fall, and by spring 

 they have decayed. He says wherever a turnip 

 has rotted, you can see the difference in the 

 color of the soil even some distance away, and 

 the abundance of the next season's crop shows 

 how quickly Nature responds when we work 

 with her. 



All vines and garden waste may be used for 

 humus if plowed into the ground in the fall, 

 unless they have been infested with insects or 

 troubled by diseases. It is well established, 



