Commentary for Avodah Zarah 100:7

ואלא זיהום אזיהום קא קשיא ליה דקתני מתליעין ומזהמין בשביעית ורמינהי מזהמין את הנטיעות וכורכין אותן וקוטמין אותן ועושין להם בתים ומשקין אותן עד ר"ה עד ר"ה אין בשביעית לא

Perhaps the difficulty is in the contradiction about placing the manure as it was taught, “We may remove worms [from a tree] and place manure [on the bark] during the Sabbatical year’; and against this we cast the following: We may place manure on saplings, wrap them [to the trunk], cut off their tops, make supports for them, and water them up to the New Year” up to the New Year this is permissible but not in the Sabbatical year itself!

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