The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-11-26
FIRM AND HOUSEHOLD.
wtAT IS NEEDED ON THE MA
JORfTY OF FARMS.
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PIES 0rindin9 tie GrAin-AgrI-
cultural Notes aad House.
hold Helps.



An Improved barn Yard,
Ono Of tho college barn yarls has
boon reconstructed In . manner which
I trust win not only prove to be Of
unspoakablo comfort to the cattle and
those who handle them. but also n
useful object lesson to students and
visitorA Those familiar with tho
premises know that the yards have o
decided slope from the barn eastward
to the little creek which, in
rainy weather. keeps up q
merry babble on its course TO the
Blue Nov. although It has been the
aim TO haul tho manure out TO the
held during the winter as fast as 1t
accumulated. this has for various
reasons not always boon practical
writes Prof Georgeson OF the Kansas
Agricultural College Manure from
the stables would collect there for
longer or shorter periods with the re-
suit that every rain washed out tho
most soluble and therefore the most
valuable fertiliziug materials These
materials were lost 70 the fields
through the cofee-colored streams
that leisurely meandered from the
manure pilo towards the creek. In
addition 70 this in a rainy time the
constant tramping OF the cattle caused
the surface TO be worked into a knee.
deep and impassable slush-the nor-
NAL winter condition OF nearly every
yxrd In tho West Both OF
these evils--the waste OF tho best
portion of the manure and the ever
present mud --hayo been remcdied
in the south yard in tho first place
a broad shallow basin has been con-
etructed by means OF pillow and
scraper. In which the manure will be
kept and which will retain all liquids
and prevent waste. And in tho sec
ond place the greater portion of the
yard has been paved in most SUBJ
stantial manner with rock taken out
of the neighboring hills The impass-
ablo miasmatic slush in that yard Is
n thing OF the past If at any time
more liquid accumulates in the basin
than can be absorbed by the long ma
nure it Is easily removed by max ing
n miniature well of a barrel placed in
the center and attaching thereto a
small pump which will discharge
through "a piece of hose The surplus
can thus readily DO transferred TO a
tank cart and drawn onto the grass
land or wherever liquid manure may
be Used to advantage.
This Same Improvement is needed
in ninety-nino out OF every hundred
barn yards west OF the Mississippi
river Will it pay? 1t will pay u
hundrcd-fold in cleanliness in COM
fort in the increased case wherewith
the cattle can be handled. In the saw
ing OF manure now so wocfully
wasted. IL pays for the same reasons
that good houses good barns good
wells and good fences pay. 1t is a
permanent improvement which in
croases the value OF any farm by
moro than Its cost.
Too many OF our farmers have not
got learned what the real value OF the
manure pile Is They do not fully
realize that it represents increased
yields OF corn and potatoes and grass
and wheat and that this increase is
added to tho profit on tho crops as
the cost OF application is not to DO
compared with the returns Our
brethren in the East were slow to
learn 1t and now with exhausted
farms dependent upon artificial fer
tilizers they mourn tho fact that the
lesson was brought home so late So
It will be here unless their experience
is needed by our farmers. Is the soil
too rich to bear manure, you say?
Last year when the college rented a
farm from an adjoining farmer we
raised twenty bushels more corn per
acre on four acres that were manfred
before planting. than on the rest OF
the field that was not MANFRED.
Save your manure save it with
care and apply it 10 the corn
ground; you will rejoice at the out
come. The manure pile Is gold
mine and not a. some apparently re-
gard 1t q necessary evil-tne abom-
Unable but unavoidable consequence
OF having stock on the place.