Show shade as an bill arp writing from the century y in gentleman leman says beavines pe avines make a q quick k and a dense shade and shade is dame natures great restorer just as soon as the wheat or the oats are removed nature sends up the grass or the weeds right away to shade the exposed ground to shield hoshield it from the burning sun pew peas are better than either both as shade and food shade produces nitrogen the great food of plants A cane break would seem to exhaust at the land from the dense luxuriant growth but it enriches it the shade of the cane break is impenetrable brier patches are a dense and luxuriant growth and they make the land rich J just so with the growth that always comes in the corners of the old rall rail fences remove the fences and you have rich fertile soil take down an old house or barn and the soil underneath is equal to a cane break plant a grapevine by the veranda and the roots will run under the house and feast upon the nitrogen that the shade has made put down some old planks between your strawberry rows and see how soon the roots will take refuge there and make more vigorous plants even the old stones make shade that gives nourishment to plants of course there is no plant food in a stone or rock but see how vines and trees grow near to stone walls and piles of rock the falling failing leaves that cover the 8 ground around do more for their shade bues tues to preserve erve it than from the plant f food that is in a dead leaf see how quickly potatoes will sprout in a dark ark cellar night dark night Is ie the universal restorer of all vegetation the generator of plant food ex bri |