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How To Have Clean Gardens

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
June
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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First, hoe euriy. Weeds vvhon first np are very tender, tuit when lurge, many will live unless buried, but if buried wben fresh, will docay before another boeing becomes neoessury. Continue tho boeing through the seasou, or as long as weeds grow. A few weods nllowed to go to eeed will Btouk a lurge garden. Purtslano in particular, one of our most tioublesoine garden weeda, has has a multitude of seed, and ripena it while tha capsules are greeu, and roany a cornfield bas been stocked with it by manure from the hng-yard. Secoud, put no yard mannre on the ganlsn that bas not been thorougbly íermented. Hen tnannre, guano, phospbate of linie, ground büuu aud ood to in x inüinately ivith the o o tent of the privy, a pufficient qutiuli'y of' some suitable absorbent, Huoh as coïI ashes, tlay, BW ara p muck or cliarooal aghos are all gnod, but poudrette is better than either of thum singly, and every family sliould maiiulacturü their own. Nothing more is uecessary than duet, whioh should be dry, and improved by the addition of gypsum. To facilitato the operatton I bave 80 constnicted my privy that whenevor a lid is closed, a given.quantity of absorbent is deposited underueatb, and besidea answering tbe purpose intended, it opérate as a disiofectaut, allaying the unpleasant odor of tbo premises to bucIi a degree as in my op:nion to pay for all the trouble and expense, if that alone were the object.- Country Gentleman. JC5Ê" An oíd criminal was once asked what thu iirst step that led to bis ruin, wlwrn he answered : " The firnt step was cheating a printer out of two yuais' subsoription. Wben I had dono that, the devil got fiuch a grip on me that I could wever shake him off." We hopo no rendar will ever take the firt tstep. Pay for your paper in advance, aD(J the devil will fleo from you An order haa been iseueil assigningl General Logau to the cominaod of the Army of the Tennensoe, and General Hazen, coinmander of the 2d división, guceeís Logao iu ooramaad of tbe 15tb corpr.

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Michigan Argus