The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-11
Manuring the Garden.

Gardens having always more labor ap-
piled to them than ordinary farm land
naturally require more manure, says the
American Cultirator. They get it too.
Rarely is the garden plat allowed to go
without annual dressing Of the best manure
to be got from barnyard or stable. This is
usually reckoned to be horse manure. 1t
ferments readily, and thus gives quicker re-
suits than manure from cattle or hogs. 1t
is therefore excellent for producing early
vegetables. and as earliness Is an important
requisite for gardens, there is additional
reason why manure found in the horse stable
should be preferred for this purpose. II
manure from the barnyard only is to be
used for gardens, that made from we'll
grained horses is better than any other.
But il is not a perfect manure. After
series of years, the garden refuses to respond
because of some deficiency. Usually it is
phosphate. Most garden vegetables contain
considerable OF this mineral, and often
more than the dressing Of stable manure
supplies. The land becomes gorged with
carbonaceous material with lack OF phos-
phate. A dressing of superphosphate VIII
then do more good than any other kind OF
manure Market gardeners often use 500 to
]. 900 pounds per acre. This large amount
NAV seem extravaganza to farmers who
think nothing OF using stable manure IN
equally large amounts. The mineral Ter
tliiger REQUIRES a cash outlay. The other
does not.
This discrimination against what money
has to be paid for directly is not so common
AS it used to be. That farmers do not apply
more commercial manureS TO their gardens
is mainly because they DO not thlnK: 1ney
have become accustomed to applying the
yearly dressing OF manure, and do not re-
member thai for some garden crops the
mineral fertilizer as a change Will prove
better. We do not advise using the mineral
alone. It is better always to mix phosphate
With the stable manure. If both are al
lowed to ferment so as to destroy weed seeus
H. will make the mineral fertilizers Much
moro effective. Fermented win sISOie
manure phosphate can be nsed WIN au-
vantage on sandy or gravelly land that con-
tains too little vegetable matter 20 allow
profitable use of mineral manure or gram
crons where no better manure Is applied
Land kept continuously in garden loses
roo much of its fertility by leachlng.,
clover rotation every few years is tne oest
preventive of this. There should Dc az
least two or three garden spots on eacn IhIh
kept rich enough SO that one year eA tt-
manuring will bring it from clover into the
fnast POSSIBLE condition for garden truck
70 MARKET gardeners could always plant on
= - oNvear clover sod they would raise better
"rons with less stable and other manure
thon thew now require. The clover GOES
more NOR than furnish green manure TO ter-
,nent In the soil Its roots reach down ln 70
the subso not only saving ana grsrglps b ~
surface plant food that would Othei WISE oo
su astsd but bv enlivening tine subsoil allow
we, mao'e ~ Toots of crops to go deeper.
ing clgve Su sod to begin with if well enriched is
49, 80 Cor such crops as cucuInOeTs
s and Melons that are always most liable to
an nsYa ~ from drought. 1t is not enough 70