Is Any Labor Lost In Working The Soil

We have taken somo pains to asoertain whethor, in the present state of high prices and the usually high pacos coinparativoly in this country, it will pay to work tho land more than it is worked, to rely, in a measure, upon this for manure. We have the evidenco of-, the follow, which, it has often been denionstrated, is labor laid out to good advantage.. Tho fallow will pay, and wo hold the mare il is worked, tho more it will pny, the work being done judiciously. It will not do to work when tho soil is wet; then it is hurtful, and this is about the only thing that is objectionable to working land. Just now beforo us is a garden, a smal] gpot, that was considered useless, being taw cellar soü Attempts have been made to grow vegetables, witik rather moderate success. The past season another family ocoupied the place,, and tho ground received a different treatment. There was llttle manure added - somo chip and some other; the inanuro was not to be had. So the oocupant relied upon working the ground. His boy was atit almost dttïly, forking it up, forking it pretty decply, and niixing the little manure well with it. It seemed as if the boy were merely playing, and it was thought and said so. But his father had given him the in6truction. This he continued till late, till other oven late gardens were made. The rusult was tha1 here was the mellowest of soil. As thore was just sufficient rain to mjike it work well, this added to it. What clay was in was pulverized, and had become, with tho rest, at least in its general effect, a dark ooïor, and a bed perfectly fitted to roceivo the seod. Here the influoncc oi the atmosphere must havo had an effoci to color the soil. What was put in started at once and trew rapidly. The soi] was boing continued to be worked. The growth was unanticipated by everybody except the owner. He had seen such things in Ireland before. Badishes here wero tho best in the village. Why ? Boeauso they grow the fastest. Everything corresponded. There was perfection, ii there was perfection anywhere. The onions, the tomatoes, lettuce, beets, everything, pushed forward almost unpreeedently - this little spot bocamo tho admiration of all that passed it. The labor spent here I have estimated as noar as I can, and I find it to amount to about two days for a man - not more I mean till the seed had been put in, the preparing, the mav uring the soil. This, at a dollar and a half a day - the price of wages hcro - would have umounted to threo dollars. Now, manuro purchased with three dollars would not have done what the Voy 's labor did in this case; it would have failod consideiably. This was tested in a garden noar by. Manuro was plentifully used, at considerable trouble nd expenso, and the garden is a fair one. But it is inferior to the one in question So have we known a large garden composud largely of sand, and wanting manure, to be worked the sumiuer through, reliance being had upon tho hoe, not to keep the weeds out mcrely, but to draw trom the atmosphere. Tho soil was stirred and raised and thrown up as much as could bc - that is, thrown so that the air could clasp it. It was partly an experiment, tosting the principie of Jethro Tull. It was done by tho wiiter himself while on a send-off by his physician to the North Woods. This was on the borders of these woods - the John Brown Tract. The result was the best garden in tho neighborhood, the soil darkening, and o: course mellow, without a weed, anc nioist, and this was in a drouth. One bed, an onion bed, it was made a business to water thoroughly, and this was almost a mracle. Tho product of this garden what was not used in the family, went to the neighbors, whose gardens were gonerally a failuro; the rest was wasted, as there was no market. As near as an estímate could be made then, tho work bestowed more than paid for common days labor, giving a fair percentage ovor. Shall we make fallows and work them thoroughly? Shall we make them this year - now 'i Shall we work more in our corn, our potatoes and our roots, and also in our gardens? We do work more in our gardens, and they are botter than tho rest of our land. So in our spring crops ■we caonot prepare them too well, beginninff to work in the fall. It will pay but do not work Cepiitigaitgrgn3