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Show Last week we published an article on growing "six crops a year" and intended making a few comments on the same, but failed to do so. In the article it was recommended recommend-ed to place manure in the hills, but where that has been tried in this latitude, it will not do, tmless it has bean previously composted as the heat generated from uurotted manure during decomposition dries and burns up the crop. If you have no compost, it is much better to spread the manuro on top of the ground after .each planting, and that mode of culture will aid in keeping the grouud moist from one watering to another, and furnish the necessary fertility required. All kinds of garden truck would do much better if a roat of manure was spread over the ground after the seed are planted; but, of course some kinds require a thinner coating coat-ing than others and good judgement judge-ment is required under all circumstances. circum-stances. Where wheat has been sown on poor land, if a fair coat of manure is spread over the ground after the wheat has come up, a much larger yield will be realized, than there will if no manure is applied. In planting out trees, vines and shrubbery, shrub-bery, nothing but fresh soil should be placed around the roots, but a coat of manure can be spread on top of the ground after they are planted, |