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Show Leaves Are Money; Do Not Burn Them Leaves are worth saving for the value they yield as fertilizing material, mater-ial, according to Dr. Thomas L. Martin, Mar-tin, professor of agronomy at the Brigham Young university. Dr. Martin urges that people preserve pre-serve the leaves that fall in the autumn au-tumn instead of burning them. On farmsteads, leaves may also be used for bedding animals. Otherwise, they should be composted. To make compost, proceed as follows: fol-lows: On top of a layer of leaves about twelve inches in depth, place about six inches of soil. Saturate with moisture and add other layers of leaves and soil in similar maimer. It Is highly important that the entire bed be saturated with moisture. In recent laboratory experiments. Dr. Martin has found that poplar leaves decompose more rapidly than other common varieties. Next in or- der is horse chestnut, followed by-Norway by-Norway maple, sycamore and catalpa. |
