that were given in the analysis; and if all the sewage and waste of
the dwelling and the products of the stable, stys and poultry-house
were well composted with muck, sod, leaves, or even common earth, and
used liberally, magnificent and continued crops of strawberries could
be raised from nearly all soils.

In many instances, however, home-made composts are wholly inadequate
to supply the need, and stable manures are too costly or not to be
obtained. The fruit grower should then go to those manufacturers of
fertilizers who have the best reputation, and who give the best
guarantees against deception. There are perfectly honest dealers, and
it is by far the cheapest in the end to pay them their price for a
genuine article. If such concentrated agents are used in connection
with a green crop like clover, land can be made, and kept productive
continuously. In the use of commercial fertilizers, there should be a
constant and intelligent effort to keep up a supply of _all_ the
essential ingredients. Wood-ashes is a specific for strawberries. I
have never found any one thing so good, and yet it is substantially
but one thing, potash, and I should remember that the plant also
requires nitrogen, which guano, or some form of animal manure, would
furnish; lime, which is best applied to the strawberry in the form of
bone meal, etc. The essential phosphoric acid is furnished in bone
meal, the superphosphates, and also in wood-ashes. By referring to an
analysis of the ash of red clover, it will be found to contain nearly
everything that the strawberry requires.

The man who reads, observes, and experiments carefully, will find that
he can accomplish much with lime and salt. If one has land full of
vegetable or organic matter, an application of lime will render this
matter fit for plant food, and the lime itself, in the course of a