The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-09
MANURE THE GARDEN.
81 Esst Be Done Regularly as Well as
Very Literally.

81 E75e BE Dono Regularly as wen es
Very Literally.
This must absolutely be done and it
must be done literally. Sixteen years
experience in market gardening has
taught US that when this was done we
might expect better crops, good seasons
or bad ones, insects or no insects. In
buying you may pay for substance
that has the bulk, but little plant food.
and in buying such manure, time is
lsst, labor is lost, money is lost, and
the anxious grower is disappointed.
TO buy manure from livery stables you
will get much sawdust and other bed
ding that make up bulk but not one
cent of value as manure, until 1t Is
thoroughly rotted, except what liquid
it has absorbed. Livery stable manure
as a usual tang is handy to get and the
gardener is often induced to buy it and
neglect home resources. And here Is
where the cheapest manure is OBJ
'ained, and where the best can be
made.
To garden successfully one must
nanure heavily, and to be able to do
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from every source; but at the same
lime he should be on his guard not to
buy it at price that will be above the
profit that NAV be derived from it. To
be successful gardener is to make the
most from the least outlay of money
and labor. Manuring heavily is one of
the greatest means to this effect To
thiu ha nd
not despise small things, neither should
he be too nice to lay hold, but should
carefully husband all material at home,
great or small, clean or filthy. and con-
vert it into plant food. Where the
gardener fattens hogs for his own
meat, he will find a grand resource for
good manure, for fattening hog evac-
sates an abundance of manure of the
-ichest quality. If no better way can
pc arranged he can pen his hogs in
lot and plant it to some garden crop the
following season.
If the gardener is not mindful he will
let much valuable manure waste that
is dropped around the stables, in the
lanes and in the henhouse. Much good
manure might be accumulated by form
ing a compost heap at a convenient
place and then throwing all suds from
the laundry, all old wooden rags, waste
leather, all rubbish from the garden.
etc, upon it. These materials have to
be disposed of someway and if COM
posted could be made into valuable
plant food.
Keeping the soil loose and mellow
enables it to absorb aud store up much
ammonia from the atmosphere, and
absorb and hold the nitrogen brought
down by the summer thunder-showers
Where the gardener can so arrange his
crops as 20 keep a part of his garden
in clover, he NAV, through the agency
OF this crop, supply his soil with nitro
gen much faster than his crops take
from II / have q friend who IS max
ing gardening a success, and he relies
on clover to keep up his sol
Another cheap manure have noticed
may be gained by setting q portion of
the garden in straw berries Cultivate
them the first year for the fruit and
after bearing turn them under. have
found the straw berry plant almost
equal TO clover a > renovzter OF the
soil Another thing many gardeners
neglect / an guilty somewhat nv
self. and so / know. After .heIr cary
crops are sold the refuse IS left. such
as cabbage stalks. beets. radishes,
bean vines. etc These draw the plan.
food already IN the sod and thus II IS
wasted Thomas u. Bairi- AZ OAK
Earlrer