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Show BLOOD AS A FERTILIZER. Gave Renewed Life to Tree That Was Fast Dying. For several seasons a very ancient walnut, with long, gaunt boughs carrying car-rying much dead wood, had been struggling to live, but each year manifested man-ifested signs that Its life was fast disappearing. The keeper in front of whose house tho tree stood took to slinging the carcas's of each deer he killed over ono of Its boughs for dressing. dress-ing. During the process all the blood dripped on tho ground and was absorbed ab-sorbed The following spring this tree put forth an astonishing crop ot leavos, and In less than throe seasons it wns making now wood nnd showing nil the vigor which had characterized It thirty years before Its renewed yputh wns entirely attributable to tho fertilizing properties of the blood with which It had been so liberally dressed. Country Gentleman. |