THE 74 
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 humus 
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 
