Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — Manuring the Soil. [ARTICLE]

Manuring the Soil.

In garden making the first essential is a heavy laybr of barnyard manure placed on the surface and then turned under as deeply as it is possible to get it. If a lot has to be filled three or four feet in depth, it should first be covered with two feet of barnyird manure, on top of which should be placed two feet of good soil. When all has been settled by the rains of one winter we will have a garden “as is a garden.” This illustration is used merely to show where manure should be placed if it be possible to get it there. A garden so filled in would grow roses and other flowering shruba that would prove little short of marvelous.