Manure From The Woods

It will hardly pay to haul rotten wood alone to your fields for manure. The fertilizing matter in all you could obtain in that condition would be quite small, and most likely it vould be full of insects, of which every farmer has enough already. Still, a considerable quantity of good manure can sometimes be gathered from a piece of woods that is tco rough for cultivation. Tbis is done by hunting out nooks where leaves and twigs have been decaying for years untü there are accumnlations several inches deep of decomposed vegetable matter, üoing no good in those particular spots, bnt which wonld add mach to the fertility of cnltivated fields if it were hanled out and spread on them.