Value of Soap Suds.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1797, 12 January 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Value of Soap Suds.

Save your soap suds, says the Scientific American. Who would throw away a barrel full of soft soap or a box of hard soap ? Were it not otherwise useful, it would be of great value as a fertilizer, if spread, in its raw state, about our fruit trees or berry bufthes. But after being dissolved in water and passed through the wash-tubs, gleaning the imperceptible elements of the best manure from soiled linen, its fertilizing power is vastly increased. Indeed, we may almost say that th« average soap suds from the kitchen and laundry is worth more than the soap which produces it. Do not then allow your soap suds to be wasted when you have trees which it might benefit. Soap suds may be used with great advantage for manuring grape vines, says the Dutchess, N. V., Fanner. Downing says he has seen an Isabella grape vine produce 8,000 fine clusters of well-ripened fruit in a season by the liberal use of manure and soap suds from the weekly wash. The effect of soap Buds on other plants is remarkable. A cypress vine that had remained stationary for a fortnight, when about two inches high, immediately began growing after being watered with soap suds, and grew about six inches in five days.