IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.
SAWDUST AS MANURE. >In suitable soils and favorable situations, early potatoes can be planted all the month. It is gratifying to know that bo great a variety of seed can be obtained. By the way, havt any settlers ever tried sawdust as o manure for potatoes ? A writer in the "Scientific American" says: — "It is a, well-known fact that sawdust by itself alone, has been successfully used for producing potatoes. For this purpose it is only necessary to lay on the open ground, in rows of two feet to three feet apart, the potatoes that are to be planted, and cover the same with a bed of sawdust, say from 6in to 12in (hick. If the season is in the least favorable, it will be astonishing how
this method of culture will prove satisfactory. Another method, which I , think preferable, is to prepare the soil by ploughing and pulverising, to open furrows 2ft to 3ft apart, to put in said furrows a 4in layer of sawdust j on this lay tbe potatoes that are to be planted, covering them with another layer of sawdust, and over this a layer ;of the soil."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 213, 7 September 1880, Page 4
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