GARDEN REFUSE.
[To see Eerros OF 'ME " SPEOTATOR."]
&n,—May I, as one in the same predicament as your corre- spondent (the Rev. J. F. Hamlyn), suggest that he may find a partial solution by keeping goats P Two of these animals if bedded down with peat-moss litter would provide one ton of manure per annum, and according to expert testimony one ton of such manure equals two tons of horse manure. Should your correspondent be unable to do this, then I would suggest pig- keeping, Fatten six or eight every year, and this would supply him with a good quantity, especially if he has access to bracken and oan use plenty of it for bedding purposes.
With regard to the utilization of garden refuse, I think the best plan is to dig a pit about three feet deep and place all garden refuse therein—fowl manure, fine ashes, bits of old sacking, fish offal, furze clippings, dead leaves, 84c.—and from time to time sprinkle over such small quantities of sell and lime, and when the pit is full and thoroughly rotted down dig another pit, and by the time the second one is full the contents of the first should be in a condition fit for forking in—late autumn in my opinion being the best time for so doing.—I am,
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