Show save the leaves if brother jonathan were as saving of manures as john bull is I 1 he ie would be a bett better er farmer no one knows until he has seen it how careful en english lish and european farmers and gardeners are of everything which can ie be converted into manure and this is one ground of their superiority in agriculture now let iet us repeat what we have often said that thit few things are more valuable for fertilizing purposes than decayed leaves they are hardly inferior to barnyard barn yard manure gather them up now this very month of no vember before they are covered by snow they are abundant everywhere lying in heaps and windrows wind rows in the florestand for forest estand and by the roadside and by the fences in every yard the woodlot wood lot should not be stripped clean of them but doubtless every farmers land contains more or of them here and there than he can find time to cart home gather them up b by raking rak ingy or by sweeping with a large birch birck broom stack stacks them and pack them in the large wagon adding olde dide boards as high as convenient you will hardly hard get too heavy a a load cart them home and use them for compost in the stable them to protect tender grape vines and shrubs and plants in winter strawberry patches will fairly sing for joy under such a feathery blanket by byall all ali means bave save the leaves and use them thea |