The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-04-10
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Who is there here who ever realizes
this am, unit or any where near this
amount from horse or a mule OF
equal size?
This is a subject which used to
trouble me, knew as | know now
we did not get any such amount OF
manure. What then became Of the
manure made by our ANIMALS?
THE WASTE OF MANURE.
After time l learned that from
Is to 90 per cent of the manurial
elements or plant food was lost
when manure was exposed out of
doors to the action of fermentation
and teaching. | also learned that
there was great shrinkage in bulk.
Horse manure exposed, lost in the
course of four months, more than one
half the valuable matter contained in
it before pretre faction. Several of
the old agricultural writers have in
sisted that 100 loads Of fresh manure
may be reduced to 20 or IS loads
after 2 or 3 months fermentation
and even to less than 80 loads at the
Chu VI year.
Is this where our manure goes to:
1t has been shown often in expert
ment5 that fresh manure, applied as
made, produces as good crops as the
same manure rOtted, which you well
see from the shrlnkage mentioned
above will not cover 50 many square
feet.
Ii this statement then be true, we
should stop doing SO much mixing
and handling over of manure, and
apply it directly to the soil.
MAKE YOUR OWN MANUREs.
The time has come when we as
farmers mot planterSl must pace
our dependence in farm manure for
our fertilizer and not in manufacture
ed guanOs. This new agriculture
then calls for more stock, more fool,
such clover, peas, grain, and corn
made into silage. Now we ask, how
shall we make them in large supply
and provide means for large quanti-
ties Of manure?
THREE MEANS.
lst. By raising more plants on the
farm and feeding them to animals.
md. BY feeding to stOck products,
such as bran and cotton seed meal
products which should never be
shipped out of the county, but fed
to our animals.
3rd. By feeding literally.
A ton Of clover hay contains plant
food valued at nearly 5000. If tits
fed to a mixed lot of cattle, the ma
nure from feeding that hay would
be worth so per cent Of its original
man urial value or in round numbers
$500 per ton.
Take cotton seed meal for another
illustration, compete its manurial
elements at commercial values. A
ton contains $500 worth of plant
food, fed as above the manure would
be worth 1920. Cotton seed meal
is largely used in the manufacture of
commercial fertilizers and when we
purchase nitrogen in this form we
pay II or Is cents pound for it.
EXPENSIVE FOLLY.
Would it not be better economy to
pass this cotton seed meal through
cattle or sheep instead of through
fertilizer manufacturers, and get the
valuable and expensive plant food it
Contains for nothing?
l purchased a ton of bran a few
weeks ago for $500 and the manure
from it as above will be worth S11.75.
AS the products / have named vary
somewhat in their composition, and
as the value of plant food may vary
somewhat with locality, distance
from seaboard, etc., let us deduct 10
per cent from the value given above,
in order to be on the safe side, and
to cover all possible contingencies
and we have the following:
Value of manure produced frcm
one ton of clover hay, 81 20
Value of manure produced from
one ton of bran, 10 90
Value of manure produced from
one ton of cotton seed meal, % IS
With these facts before you, will
you go from this meeting and still
mist on giving commissions to store
keepers and pay good money for
poorer article than you can raise YOUR
self and continue 10 pay no attention
to the manufacture of homemade
manure?
TEACHING OF MANURE.
We all produce some stable ma
nure and we have some stock already.
How do we take care of it? Let us
see. You say you have your lot or
yard well Uttered with pine straw,
leaves, muck, etc. Very well, Let
us figure little and see what science
tells with unmistakable words.
One inch Of rain fall gives 100
tons of water per acre, 45 inches our
average rain fall per alnum gives
1900 tons of water per acre each
year.
A yard 100Xl10 feet contains al
most exactly one-fourth of an acre.
In one year this yard has LIPS tons
OF water, precipitated into it, to say
nothing of that carried into it from
the roofs of adjacent buildings.
What becomes of this water? You
know as we'll as I.
KEEP MANURE COVERED.
An Investigation carried on at Cor
nell University showed every ton of
water which passed through about
one foot of untramped horse manure
carried with it 60 cents worth of
plant food. In On investigation of
farm manures made under cover and
which contained a liberal amount of
straw it was found that a ton was
worth S3.05 in one case and $3.50
per ton IN another case or an average
OF 1882 more than manure made in
an open lot. Can you afford to leach
the manure befo re it is carried to the
field, or is it any wonder that some
farmers think that farm nanures are
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