The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-04

means manures should be heaped in
cone-shaped piles, and as every course
is put on the pile it should be well
trodden down and plaster sprinkled
over it to prevent the escape of am
monia, the most volatile and expensive
element in manure. One piling in a
season won't do. The manure should
be turned over at least once a month
and if this done by planting time it
will be well rotted and easy to handle,
But will the farmers ever get enough
stable manure? Never, because the
average farmer, even by stall feeding
in the most improved manner, cannot
keep more animals than will make
sufficient manure to cover properly 1G
acres of land each year. In this CON
nectiOn we often wonder if the far
mers knew the value of ton of aver
age barnyard manure. The chemists
tell us it is only about $2.45, which
price is made up of 10 pounds of am
monia at Is cents pounds pounds OF
potash at 5 cents a pound, and II
pounds phosphoric acid at . cents a
! pound, which is all the chemical food
ton of manure contains. But it's
real value is far beyond this, because
| it contains, combined with the chemi-
Gals, ''humus," forming materials
without which the manure would not
be worth saying on account of the eX-
pense of spreading it, but it is at this
point that science comes to the far
mers rescue, by teaching him how to
| increase the value and action of the
| humuS material, which predOminateS
in his manure. 1t is this that releases
| the soil acids and sets them at work to
dissolve the latent potash, phOsphoric
acid and ammonia, which all lands
contain in more than abundant GUAM
titles for raising every crop success
| fully. Humus is to the soil what Yeast
is to flour in making bread and how to
increase the so much desired activity
to the humuS should be the constant
study and aim Of every user of barn
yard manure so as TO make his ma
nure act quickly on the plant foods
nature has already provided for him.
So far as has been discovered the best
plan seems to be by mixing manures
with Powell's Prepared Chemicals.
which are specially prepared for this
purpose and we believe it is rightly
claimed by their use that you not only
| increase the efficiency Of the manure
more than four fold, but are enabled
to make good, complete fertilizers at
home out Of the manure at a cost of
| about $500 per ton, and the process
of manufacturing is so simple any boy
with only a shovel and hoe can mix
ton in about an hour After this
| home made fertilizer is mixed in ac-
cordance with directions it will con
tain about 1.25 and 1.50 per cent. OF
ammonia, 2.25 per cent. of actual pot
ash, 1900 to 1900 per cent. of available
| phosphoric acid and bone phosphate
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OF lime. Such fertilizer in the ready
mixed form in which commercial fer
tilizers are usually sold will cost from
$22 to S25 per ton at the place Of man
ufacture, but in the ready mixed stuff
you would not have the humus nor
the yeast working principle and the
absence of this is the reason why so
many of the ready mixed fertilizers
fail to be Of any benefit to the farmers,
who are using them largely. P0wells
Prepared Chemicals are largely used
in great many sections, in Novia Scotia
and Canada as well as the United
States and we are more than surprised
that our farmers have not taken hold
of them before this.
Full information, we feel sure will
be sent by the makers.
| Powell Fertilizer & Chemical Co.,
Baltimore, Md.