The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-20
Save Your stable Manure.

Good stable manure is a good fertilizer,
and usually produces very satisfactory re-
suits. Yet in a load of 1900 pounds of
good quality there are only fifteen pounds
of ammonia, ten pounds phosphoric acid
and ten pounds of potash. This is a fair
average analysis. Some stable manure
may be much poorer, while some may be
a little better. Fourteen hundred pounds
In the ton is water About 800 pounds is
vegetable matter, the carbon, in which is
contained the thirty-ive pounds of valu-
able elements.
Two hundred pounds of cotton seed meal
furnishes as much ammonia as a ton of
first quality stable manure. A hundred
pounds of good acid phosphate furnishes
more phosphoric acid than does the ton
of stock manure, and seVenty-five pounds
of kainit affords as much potash as does
the two of manure
The stable manure of which the above
is the analysis is the pure material, which
has absorbed much of the liquid excre-
ment
Such manure as is usually afforded by
livery stables and from animals that are
highly fed-that analysis does not repre-
sent the lot scrapings or manure from
stalls where pinestraw is abundantly used
for bedding and frequently changed.
Most of the manure of southern farms
is far inferior to the above-intrnsically
not worth one-half what it is.
Stable manure containing the twenty
five pounds of the above valuable element
would be worth intrinsically So. 50 to $500
per ton. Much of that styled stable ma
nure on our southern farms would not be
worth over 81 80 per ton. One dollar would
come nearer representing its true value,
basing its value on the elements OF fer
tiity contained in it.
But stable manure has an effect outside
of its fertilzing qualities that enhances
its value somewhat more. Its action as
mulch and as a laboratory of carbonlc
acid in the soil is what no commercial
fertilizer possesses. Applied in a single
furrow in liberal quantity, it very prompt
Nv fires the plant when dry weather sets
in. and to avoid this danger and
to get the best effects from it's
use it should be applied in the list fur
rows as advised in the case of using 400 or
800 pounds of commercial fertilizer to the
acre. Economy in the use of it demands
that it should be handled only once. It
should be hauled out once or twice year
and either applied in the furrow or broad
cast.
In the late fall or winter is the best time
to haul it out. A compost can be made
in the field as well as in the lot. After
applying it in the furrow it can be sprink-
led with a mixture of acid phosphate and
kainit which will make it as good com
post" as could have been made under shell
ter at the lot. This can be done months
before planting time with little or no loss
to manure, when put in broad, shallow fur
rows and listed upon. The burrows can be
laid off before cold weather and the haul
ing out and putting in the burrows done
while the soil is frozen, if there is no 9TH
er more profitable work to be done, listing
TO be done after the ground thaws. 1t is
Improbable to handle stable manure more
than once.
In applying it from the carts or wagons,
though carts are best, three burrows should
be carried at a time, and a shovelful
(short handle) of a good quality of ma
nure applied to not more than four feet
of row, If not very good, to three feet.
When applied in the list burrows, the
burrows should be deeply turned on the
main furrow, and six burrows carried at
a time with a heaping shovelful to six
feet of row. Less than this is not much in
the way of manuring. To make the best
profit out of it, it takes big pile of ma
nure to go a little way, as most farmers
have realized, who have made great piles
of compost and found it did not go over
half the land they expected to put it on.
Its good effects will be seen for three sea-
sons generally.