The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-30

Il & nfs % ssy there are few fsRrns
| within The Sta g. Of Illinois but would be
mere or less benefited by. the applicAt.
ton az all the manure hat coold b
made upon them. And vet the making
and saving Of manure. is-not one OF
| thelost sffs but onetof the Ar that
has never been found large majority
of Western farmers. Their fertile soil :,
and the consequent ability to grow
crops without the aid of fertilisers, has
made them. careless. And now that
their farms by this neglect have become
worn out this highly important lesson
is yet to be learned.
The farmer or fruit grower who util.
ICES all the fertilizing material at his
command is an execution; and the rule
is to allow most of it to go to waste.
Indeed. many of the earlier built barns
are SO placed as TO permit, and even re-
quire, that it shall be lost. Many of
these are built at or near the ravines, 50
that the rains may wash it all away as
it accumulatss. By this means and
this seems TO have the purpose the la
Dor of hauling and spreading it upon
the fields is saved. The writer has in
his mind farm located Cd the edge of
prairie, where the soil is not deep, on
which barn has for more than forty
years been standing on the edge of .
steep ravine, down which all the ma
nurial accumulations of the farm have
been annually washed away and totally
lost. And yet there has been no year
since that farm felt the touch of q pillow
that it would not have been materially
improved by the application of that
wasted manure to its growing crops.
And tie owner of that farm got rich;
how, it would be hard to tell; certainly
it was not by saving and applying the
manure made upon his farm.
OF Just how much value the manure
left upon farm in a year by each indi-
vidual of stock is, it would be hard to
estimate; though, counting horses and
cattle alone, ten dollars each will prob
ably not be too high. Hogs and sheep
may be estimated at less. Nor can VIC
guess with any certainty at the real
value to the soil of the Stops from the
kitchen, which are on almost every
farm allowed to run to waste. ,a2'''"
Certain it is, however, that if all the
fertilizing material produced on any
given farm should be carefully saved
and estimated at its market value, it
world amount to sum that would as
tonish its owner-a sum in many in
stances larger than the whole income of
the farm. Obviously, therefore, ma
nure Is money; and manure allowed to
60 to waste is so much money thrown
away; rs truly so as if taken from the
pocket and squandered.
And one who has never tried to econ
omize in this line will be astonished at
the amount of fertilizing material that
may be saved on a farm with even few
stock animals, or on small village lot.
There are the ash-heap, the chip-pile,
the saw dust, decaying sods and weeds,
refuse bones. lawn clippings. the waste
hay and straw and cornstalks, the suds
from the washings and the dish-water
from the kitchen-all these and numer--
Gus other sources of supply-all of
which. collected and worked over, will
Weld an amount of valuable fertilizers
for the garden. the orchard, or the field
crop. And how few. even of our best
cultivators, think of saving them. Our
gardens need all they can get of these
materials; our orchards need
them badly; and our field crops need
them also.
Our brethren in the Eastern States
have learned these lessons pretty we'll;
better-far better-than we have. Yet
few only-of our people are
becoming pretty apt scholars, compelled
by necessity to resort to some method
to restore their impoverished lands to
their former fertility. And we should
all be taking lessons in the art-Cor.
Pdirie Former.