Fertilizer
Compost Bins, Courtesy of Honnold Mudd Library
Naturopath Dr. Alvenia Fulton was born in Tennessee in 1893. The Fulton’s cows also kept the family well supplied with manure for fertilizing crops. George Washington Carver shared that one could and can produce large amounts of inexpensive sources of great fertilizer from compost. Make a pen to hold as much as you want. Spread loads of leaves over the bottom of the pen; then one load of manure; build up in this way until the pen is full. Put a rough roof over it to prevent the excess of water from washing out the fertilizer parts. Dump all the wood ashes, paper, and all quickly decaying matter in it. If you cannot get manure, make the compost without it. Using composted soil increases one’s crop yield considerably.
Based on Food Historian Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie’s Work in Progress
