A Cheap Fertilizer

The be3t fertilizer to use in setting ('ruit trees of all kinds is partially or tuoroughly (leccimposed chip-dirt. We made use of the material lur the first time some twenty ycars ago in planting an orchard, and it was a wonder to those not in the secret what caused the trees to make such a fine growth theprst season, and aftcrwards, too, for tliat matter. This experiment was so satinlactory that whcn we set our ncw orchard we made a liberal use of this material, with the samo satisfactory result. These trials have proved to our satisfaetion that chipdirt is the very best material to mix in the soil as you plant the tree that can possibly be used, for the reasoo that it holds moisture, and is full of the elements of plant food ; therefore, it promotes a most luxuriant, natural and healthy growth. liepeated trials have satisfied me that a tree u not only more sureto live, butwill make doublé the growth the first year (especially if a dry aeason), if some two bushels of chip dirt are properly used in its setting, than it would without it. A single trial will convinae the most skeptical that the best possiblo use that can be made of this valuable material is to apply it to the soil in plantin trees in order to push forward the tree durin? the first precarious stages of its growth.