Show MANURE NEEDED FOR GARDEN on average farm alert gardener will usually find sufficient quad quan city near at hand where there is a scarcity of stable manure it may be well to purchase a few loada loads for the garden however on the average farm the alert gardener will usually find a sufficient quantity of animal manures near at hand it if a cow pigs and poultry are kept the cow stall the pigpens and the poul try houses should be cleaned out at regular intervals and the contents spread over the garden soil and worked in in addition to adding plant food the heavy application of such animal manures enlivens the soil so as to ad mit more air and thus induce greater bacterial action it also increases the moisture holding capacity by render ing the soil more triable friable and sponge like most garden soils will be benefited also by an application of lime at the rate of three our tour four tons per acre every few years the judicious use of lime corrects acidity renders corn com pact soils more triable friable and makes loose sandy soils more compact |