The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-03-27
THE VALUE OF MANURE.


tumes.-Pitts6Urgh Leader.
THE VALUE OF MANURE.
KANSAS FARMER: The farmers o
Kansas do not place proper estimate
upon the benefits derived from prop
experiments with manure on differen
kinds of soil, and different kinds O
grain, and have been deubly paid fol
an the labor expended. In 1861 pu
some manure on upland prairie. In ont
place put two large wagon loads OF
eight square rods, or at the rate of forty
loads to the acre. All around this piece
for few rods, I left without manure
while on other parts of the field I put
about half as thick. We plowed the
land eight inches deep, and planted it in
corn. The result was, that where I did
not put any manure, the corn was rath-
er light crop, probably twenty-five
bushels to the acre; where l. put the
moderate coat of manure, there was
nearly double the amount of corn, and
where the extra heavy coating was put,
the crop was about three times as heavy
as where there was none. But the good
effect of the manure does not stop with
one crop. / cultivated that piece OF
land for five years in succession, and
every year showed the same marked
difference. The surface of the. land is
even, and yet to person standing 8 lit
tic way off, the ground where the ma
nure was put, appears to be from one to
two feet higher than the surrounding
grounds, in consequence of the growing
crop being SO much taller there than
elsewhere. Probably not one farmer In
ten, in the State, but tries to economist
by making or saving manure, while, a
majority of us suffer the manure to waste
by running into the roads or streams.
These things ought not so to. be. With
the coming of railroads, we shall expect
to see better class of farmers, settling
up what is now called the poorer lands,
and making more money from them
than many are now making from the
choicest lands. 7-aitG.n tlstof gogi9 s.
On the goth of March, A. d. 1866, /
sowed spring wheat on the land before
mentioned. 1t had been in corn the
year before, and sewea without plow-
ing. it being free from weeds. About
two-thirds of the piece L soWed had
been MANFRED quite heavily within the
past four yesrs the rest had never been
MANFRED. The manured land ripened
four to six days earlier than the other.
It made a good growth of straw; and
turned twenty bushels of very nice,
plump wheat to the acre, while the land
without manure produced very little
straw, and not wheat enough to pay for
gathering. Being few days later, the
chinch bug just literally eat it up. My
neighbor, just across the road from me,
sowed wheat the same day on just the
same kind of land, and with seed from
the same bin. His land had never been
MANFRED. The chinch bug destroyed
what little there was of his, so that il
did not pay the expenses of harvesting
The land holds moisture better, and
crops come forward earlier, where there
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the soil.
Has any person ever tried plaster In
Kansas? If SO, let us hear from them
through the Farmer. can see no fea
son why plaster will not benefit our stp
lands, especially, as much as it does
the land in the eastern States, where
they think the use of plaster indispens
able in raising nearly every kind ofcrop
j For one, I am satisfied that all the sta
BILE and barnyard manure that we cal
save and put out on our lands, will pa.
better than any other labor expended
on our farms. OLIVER PHILLIPS.
WATERLOO, Lyon Co., Feb. 10, 1868