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to remain fully a month, when it is turned 

 once more. Use a spade in these operations. 

 One month before the soil will be carried into 

 the house it should have the final turning, 

 when bone meal (one part to fifty) or other 

 fertiliser, as may be desired, may be added. 



To a soil taken from a pasture yielding one 

 ton of hay to the acre one-fourth of its bulk 

 of manure may be added. Whereas a soil 

 from a pasture cutting two tons to the acre 

 will not need over one-eighth of its bulk of 

 manure. At the last turning of the compost 

 a dash of lime and bone meal may be given — 

 but neither in large quantities. It will be 

 better perhaps for the ordinary person to 

 omit the lime — which is given only when 

 there is an extra heavy soil — and apply the 

 bone meal (or wood ashes) directly to the 

 soil in the beds or benches as a top dressing 

 before planting, at the rate of one bushel to a 

 hundred-foot house of the standard width of 

 twenty feet. Or figuring by weight, ten 

 pounds each of bone meal and wood ashes, 

 or bone meal and sheep manure, to two hun- 

 dred square feet of glass, mixed with the soil 

 in the bench or while turning outdoors, will 

 be sufficient. Some growers add powdered 



