Never Burn Straw.
The New York Tribune quotes in one column the excellent effects of strewing the ref üße litter from the bottom of mows, etc., on the surface of dry knolls on which the grass is nsually burned out by the heats of summer, and in the next column mentions the Virginian advice to burn all such straw and all stubble as a means of destroying insects and fungi. Enough of time has elapsed since "Virgil wrote to see the effects of his system, which has been largely practiced along the Mediterranean to this day. There, from Spain to Asia Minor, the high ground has been mostly reduced to sterility, and only the low land, which is naturally last to become exhausted, remains n't for profitable tillage. The economical fanner will never burn a straw that he can n«e in muloh or surface dressing, to beoome, as it decays, a constituent of the humus or vegetable mold, which the plow rapidly uses np, but which is essential both for protection and as a purveyor of nutriment. — Rural New T*rker.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1797, 12 January 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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180Never Burn Straw. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1797, 12 January 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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