The Forrest City times., 1892-01-08
THE FARM AND HOME.
OWE YOUR GARDEN A LIE
 CRAE MANURINC.
Strawberry Plant Almost Equal to Clover as . Renovsfor-Lsss Hay for Horses-FAsm Notes and
 Donestic asips-
Manure the Garden

This must absolutely be done and 1t must be done literally Sixteen years experience in market gardening has taught us that when this was done we might expect paying crops, good seasons or bad ones. insects or DO in- sects In buying you may pay Tor substance that has the bulk. but little plant food And in buying such manure. time is lost 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 bedding that made up bulk. but not one cent of value as manure until it | thor oughIy routed. except what liquid it has absorbed Livery stable manure. as a usual thing 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 obtained. and where the best can be made.
 To garden successfully one must m anure heavily. and to be able to do so he must get all the manure he can. from every source; but at the same time he should be on his guard not to buy it at a price that will be above the profit that may be derived from it. To bs a successful gardener is to make the most from the least outlay of money and labor. Maturing heavily is one of the greatest means to this effect To secure this. one must be energetic and 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 convert 1t into plant food. Where the gardener fat tens hogs for his own meat he will find grand resource for good man. ure. for fattening hog evacuates an abundance of manure of the richest quality. If no better way can be ar ranged. 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 tho hen-house- Much good manure might be accumulated by forming compost heap at a con venient place and then throwing all suds from the laundry. all old woolen rags. waste leather. all rubbish from the garden. etc. upon it. These ma terials have to be disposed Of some way and if composted could be made into valuable plant food
 Keeping the soil loose and mellow enables it to absorb and 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 to keep part of his garden in clover. he may. through the agency of this crop sup ply his soil with nitrogen much faster than his crops take from it. l have a friend who is making gardening a success and he relies on clover to keep up his soil. writes Thomas b Baird in the Ohio Farmer
 Another cheap manure I have no- ticed may be gained by setting DOT ton of the garden in strawberries. Cultivate them the first year for the fruit and after bearing turn them under. I have found the straw berry plant almost equal to clover as a renovator of the soil Another thing many gardeners neglect am guilty somewhat myself and so know. After their early crops are sold the refuse is left such as cabbage stalks beeta radisheS bean vines, etc. These draw the plant food already ir the soil and thus 1t is wasted.