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GARDEN YARD ' 



that insects and their eggs manage to live over 

 the winter by the aid of vines and refuse left ly- 

 ing about, as well as by weeds that the careless 

 farmer has failed to destroy. It is well to cut 

 all weeds, not only those that bother you in 

 your garden, but also those that grow along the 

 road, as often their seeds are carried by the wind 

 or the birds into your garden patch. Gather 

 them into a heap and burn them, adding to your 

 bonfire all the sickly, dead, diseased, or insect- 

 ridden vines and plants, and completely destroy 

 them. You may be sure that the bugs on those 

 particular plants will not bother you next year. 

 What you lose in possible humus by this practice, 

 you can make up by growing green manure, or 

 even by buying some of the prepared himius 

 materials now on the market. 



The Long Island Agronomist, in a recent 

 issue, tells of one of these materials which comes 

 from New Jersey, and consists of innumerable 

 rootlets, leaf-fibres and vegetable matter of all 

 descriptions. It is gathered from the peatbogs 

 of New Jersey and is really the wash from moun- 

 tains and hills carried down by streams in 

 freshet times, until some level was reached 

 where this deposit was made. When spread on 

 the land or mixed with the earth, it is found to 

 hold much moisture, for each particle swells 



