The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-04
UTILIZING WHAT is LEFT.
The Wastes on the Farm-What May BE
Turned Into Manure.

The Wastes on the Farm-What May he
Turned Into Manure.
Manure is. and should always be. an
object on the farm, and in order to Sc
cure this everything that can be used,
either as an absorbent or to increase the
quantity, should be utilized. Even with
the best of pains there is considerable
let 60 to waste that might under differ
ent circumstances be saved, yet little
care taken will often add materially to
the quantity without making the cost
very much greater. We burn up and
destroy too much which if saved and
used. either as an absorbent in the
stables or barnyard. or applied in the
manure heap, would add not only to its
bulk but also to lis value.
With the uncertainties of the seasons
it is ALWAYS the safest plan to make sure
of a sufficient supply of rough feed for
all the stock. Wheat or Oat straw or
corn fodder should be secured not only
to make a good supply of roughness,
but also to furnish a good supply of lit
ter. l dislike using corn stalks in the
stable, either feeding or using them for
litter, unless they are cut up fine, as
they are difficult to handle after they
are trodden down. But in the feedlots
or barnvards they can be fed out to 4
good advantage and can be used very
profitab!y.
Too many farmers burn up whatever
surplus fodder or straw they have left
in the spring when they could be used to
a good advantage as an absorbent.
Simply allowing the fodder or straw
piles to rot down is very poor way of
receiinvg any special benefit from them.
Alone rOtted they contain but little plant
food, but by using as an absorbent they
can be made very valuable.
Many farmers who are very careful to
save all the solid manure fail to take any
especial pains to save the liquid. OF
course when it is best to have your
stable floors tight, with cutters and a
cellar to hold all the liquid manure, but
this is not always possible, and the next
best plan to save this is to use all this
kind of material that in SO many cases
is allowed to 60 to waste, as an absorb
ent, and if care is taken to keep up
liberal quantity of litter scattered where
the stock are fed aud they lay. whether
in the stables or feed lots. Theu this
material is move easily got rid Of-an
old stack will be two or three years rot
ting down and be of very little value
after it is. while if used or removed
where it can .e :ramped under foot i:
will be ready to haul out by fall ana be
of considerable increased value.
Every farmer has more or less ashes
every year. Many just allow them to
be thrown out without making any eff
fort to use them to the best advantage.
Old bones, hats and shoes are allowed
to 60 to waste, while if they were gath
cred up. the bones broken up. and all
dissolved it would make an extra good
fertilizer for special crops.
Very few farmers make any special
effort to save poultry manure or utilize
house waste, when they are the very
best fertilizers we can possibly secure,
and could be saved and used to the very
best advantage. 1 have used consider
'.bie of both, and while some care must
be taken because of their strength. yet
| find them very valuable, entirely too
much SO to be wasted.
One of the principal items in good
farming is to as much as possible
increase the fertility of the soil.
and this can only be secured by turning
every thing of value as fertilizer to
the best advantage.-M G. Shepherd,
in Weskera Pl0Um1n.