The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-01-27

which this can be done and yet a Eroft
made on the machine itself. Live
stock of the farm are so constituted
thai they are able to convert rorghnes;
into a fne manure. 4 Substance
wdich is not only as good fertilizer
after passing through an animal con
tairing all tne elementsof plant food It
originally contained. but is equally
improved by this process, for lis con-
stituents are thereby rendered much
more easily available to plants. The
elements utilized by the animals are
largely carbohydrates and fat and not
phosphoric acid and potash, for which
we pay in commercial fertilizers. The
animal also uses nitrogen. But for
every article so extracted from tfe
food, q corresponding amount IS re
leased from the body. Hence whether
we sell our farm products or, after
feeding them to our animals, fail TO
take prcper care Of their manures, cur
farms are just that much poorer.
But some one asks, how shall We
care for the manure IL order to bet
ter ans wer this question, let US first
inquire what manure IS, ana
hog It is formed. The object
OF adding manure OF any kind
to a soil is either to supply
natural deficiency OF that soil ia the
elements OF plant food, to return what
we have taken from it. Or to increase
its fertility. 4 manure must, there
fore, contain these elements Of plant
food. While the substances necessa-
~ to supply plant food are numerous
fortunately for US, they nearly all ex-
;st in nature in such abundance TIA!
they are practically inexhaustloIs
from any soil. Nitrogen, phosphoric
acid and potash, however, form no:a-
ble exceptions 10 this rule; hence the
chief object in manuring is to supply
these, and no substance Is Of any val
ue as a manure unless it contains some
or all of these elements. When ami
mails take food into their stomachs
they extract therefrom, more or less
completely, nitrogen, CO roohydrates
and fat-the latter two Of no use as
plant food. The medium by which
these substances are held in the plant
and the undigested portions OF the
plant, then pass on and are voided
from the body. The nitrogen is taken
into the animal in the form CT albuml-
noids In a mature animal, at rest,
the only use of food is to get material
to supply heat-supplied By fat and
carbohydrates and to replace the It's.
sue worn out in performing the vital
functions. This las. is supplied by al
buninoids. But, IS stated above, for
every part CT albuminoids so used, a
corresponding amount already con-
taineo in the body is split up into It's
constituents of nitrogen, caroon, ny
drogen, etc., and escapes from the AMI
NAL in the liquid excrements.L 1t IS thus
seen that while the solid excrements
are the refuse from the food, the II.
quid contains the worn out portion OF
the body, and the two together, 10 the
case of the mature animal, contain al
the elements of the plant food con
tanned in the original plant. II has
been found by repeated trials that TIE
amount OF albuminoids taken up by
the body is dependent largely upon
the supply in ths food. Feed an ami.
NAL on a highly nitrogenous fodder
and the resultant manure will be rich
in that substance. Hence the value OF
manure depends largely upon the food
of the animal. In chemical compost
ton, for manure, the plant has been
practically unchanged in its passage
through the animal. But while in the
form of food it would have required
many months for its constituents to
become available to plants in the
form of manure, its constituents have
been converted into an easily soluble,
rapidly fermentable medium OF plant
food.
G. FITzSiMoNs,
Manager Southern Cotton Oil Co.,
Columbia, 5. c.