Treatment Of Bones

Bones accumulate on every f arm, and a hunt for them vyill bring out mauy more than one would expect to find. When properly treated, they fumish very valuable food for grbwingplants. Whole bones, as they are thrown out f rom the kitchen, are so slowly decomposed, that they are of little use, unless applied very largely. They need to be broken up or made fine in some way that the large amount of phosphoric acid, etc, contained in them may be ayailable. It is not practicable for ordinary farmers to have bone milis, and the next best thing is to break them up somewhat with an axe or heavy hammer, and mix them with unleached ashes, keeping the heap moist enough so the alkali will "eat" them, and render the bones soft. The bones thus treated will crumble to fine pieces when dried, and are then ready to be spread upon the land. Every farmer should see that all bones are made into a valuable home-made fertilizer. -