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Mulching

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
November
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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Did you ever hit a board frotn the ground in warm weatber ? If so, you have noticed that the ground was moist, do matter how severe the drouth. Thie is mulching. But the keeping the ground moist is not the only benefit of mulch. Tiio moisture deposited beneath tho rnuloh is the warm air coming in contact with the cool ground. This air always contains moro or less fertilizers in the form of vapor. And this vapor is arrested by cool air coming in contact with warmer. Everybody can see if they wül that a piece of land kept covered instead of bare, will increase in fertility, whilo a pioce left naked will continually grow poorer. If a farmer leaves a cover-of grasa upon the ground during the Winter, ho will find it will pay him woll in the increase of the erop, wbile the naked ground is Hable to lose not only vvhat grass there is by winterkilling, bnt less and less grass will grow where it is all fed off close in tho Fall. An apple tree will be made to grow and bear fruit, simply by covering the ground with stono around the roots. - And I have seen trapes growing out of a pile of stones, loaded with fruit. Tho stone heap acting as a mulch, and keoping the ground at an oven temperature, which is soessential in growing grapes, never permitting tho ground to bake. - Keep your ground under the plow, well worked, and don't let your pasture become naked either in Summcr or Winter.

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Old News
Michigan Argus