Value of Soap Suds.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 54, 9 October 1883, Page 3

Value of Soap Suds.

Pave your soap suds, says the Scientific American. Who would throw away a barrel full of soap 1 or a box of hard soap ? Wore it not otherwise useful, it would be of great value as a fertilizer, f -pvead, in .ts raw state, about our fruit trees or b rry bushes But af'er bp.insj disI sol v In! in water >ini^ pushed through the wash-tubs, gleaning the imperceptible elements' of the best manure from soiled linen, its lertilizing power is vastly increased. Indeed, we may almost say that the average soap suds from the kitchen and laundry is worth more than the soap which produces it. ho not then allow y»ur soap suds to to be wasted when y«>u have trees which it might bt-nefit. Soap suds may h« used with great advantage for manuring grai c vines, says the Dutch ess, N.Y,, Farmer. Downing B»ys he ha> *een an Isabella grape vine produce 3,000 fine clu*teru of well-ripened iruit in a season by i-h« liberal us* <it manure and soap s'ids from the weekly wa^h. The eft«ci ot soap suds on other plants is remarkable. A cyp- ! ress vine that had remained stationary for a fortnight, when about two inches hi»h, immediately be. an growing after being watered with sop xuds and grew about six inches in five days.