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deeper rooted berry bushes, ornamental shrubs or fruit trees. A heavy mulch around shallow-rooted vegetables may tend to reduce soil aeration in a wet season and have a somewhat suppressing effect on growth.
Sawdust appears to have a moderate retarding effect on the development of broad-leafed weed seedlings. If the first crop of such weeds can be controlled without disturbing the soil under the mulch, the problem of control during the remainder of the season will be relatively easy; Most cultural and hoeing operations stir up a new crop of weed seeds which must then be eliminated at a future date. Mulching tends to curtail the development of these later crops of weeds- Sawdust appears to have no particular controlling influence on weeds of the grass family. On the basis of experimental evidence which is available at the present-timeeither—hardwood or softwood sawdust may be used in a green or weathered condition. Sawdust which is partly decomposed will, of course, cause less nitrogen deficiency than will fresh material. Ordinarily it is advisable to purchase sawdust by the cubic yard ra
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