Show humus necessary and brings better crops humus Is decaying vegetable mat ter such as stable manure or anything that will rot when turned under the ground writes a correspondent in the rural new yorker almost all rich soils contain a good supply of humus while most poor soils are lacking in it humus keeps the soil loose preventing a hard crust from felming aft e rains keeps the soil warm so that crops will grow earlier in the spring sprin and tikes care of the water supply in wet weather the humus absorbs the water I 1 ke a sponge and holds it until dry weather when the plants can ran use it humus helps to make male plant food aval lible it is hard to make a profitable crop on land lacking in humus humus Is usually supplied to the soil by either stable manure or turning under green manure crops As a good example of the benefits of humus almost every farmer sometime or other has removed a fence that has been standing for years and when this field Is cropped the next time you have no that where the fence stood the soil was darker in color and more mel low than the remainder of the field and the plants grow faster with a darker green color yield ng more this was caused by the humus that N was as added to the soil by the decaying of wee Is that grew around the fence every year |