The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-08-15
PROFIT IN PROGRESS.

Good Stables tAe FOnnl1fiO0s Of Fertility
and Prosperity.
A good cOw-stable is az desirable for
the revenue it brings. rs for the COM
fort it affords both man and beast.
The financial profit would return in
several ways. Indirectly good stable
tones up the business connected with
it. in all departments. Here lies an
indefinable profit.
More visible results will be found in
the milk pail. Many experiments
conclusivcly prove that cattle well
sheltered, and made entirely comfort
able will not only give more milk but
richer milk than when their comfort
is neglected. Here will be found an
other source Of profit.
An equally large profit will come
from the improvement in the manure
in quality and quantity. provided its
soluble elements arc not leachcd out
by the rains when thrown out Of the
stable. This is assuming that in a
good stable absorbents are used to save
the liquid manure. aud increase the
total amount.
When we remember that 0ne-half OF
the fertilizer in the stable is in liquid
form, We see how expensive is the
stable that saves only the solid manure.
Only rich farmers can afford to own an
old wind-penetrating and manure
teaching stable. Poor men must have
good stables. Colonel John B. Mead.
Of Vermont. publicly stated, after ap-
plNing the urine Of his stables to the
land for five years, that the crops oil
his farm were doubled.
The liquid manure is needful to sup
plement the solid manure with elements
in which it is deficient. Six-tenths oil
all the nitrogen and nearly nine-tenths
Of all the potash is in the liquid ma
nure, as the following table shows:
Nitrogen. Paosphorie acid. PotasA
I IS1la;i: S Ss 90 So 81 81
This matter OF saving fertilizers is
one of vital Importance. The recent
experiments Of Prof. w. A. Henry,
director Of the Wisconsin Agricultural
Experiment Station, were conducted
with great exactness, and very decisive
in determining the value OF the fer
tilizer made by granted mich cows.
He found the daily value more than I
cents per COW. This would amount to
e25 yearly. Probably fvc-cighths-
i. G., &l6 worth--of this amount is
found in the stable where cows are in
every night and during most Of the
winter days. and the other three
eighths are left in the field and yard.
Now. il an improved stable. using
ahsorbents, saves one-half (the liquid)
Of this stable manure, we have Is per
COW saved yearly BY the improv ements
made.
A good COW will make 200 pounds OF
butter yearly. worth $50 at % cents
per pound. So by absorbents, nearly
onc-sixth is annually added to the
product of each COW. In herd of
fifteen or twenty cows, the aggregate
becomes a considerable sum.
The writer built stable such as is
here referred to, last summer. 1t also
has tight floor over head for storing
absorbents. The cost above the foun-
dation was$l5 per COW. The interest on
this sum at six per cent. makes the
cost per cow less than 81 yearly.
This sum is saved several times over in
the Fertilizer gained. besides the better
product in milk and butter. 1t is
under all the circumstances the best
investment made on the farm. 1t also
adds pleasure and comfort. A lady
may visit the stables without offend
ing her eye or soiling her clothes, or
taking i'll odors away on her shoes.
The hired help are delighted with
the change, and we'll they may be, for
who can restrain their pity for the
men, especially when, belated by
showers or other causes, they explore
dark aad repulsiye stables, or wade in
soft barnyards to do the milkingP"--
e. E, Little, In Country Gentleman.