St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-07-23
FARMER AND PLANTER.
VALUE OF BARNARD MANURE
ster That Many Ot:,ersvIse l'rae-
teal Farmers Give Little
Attention 10.

Attention 10.
II seems that many OF our practical
farmers do not know of the great value
OF barnyard manure. only Judge this
TO be SO by the use they make Of it;
tnat is, they make no use OF it at all,
or nearly SO. It is great loss to let
the manure pile take the weather for
any length Of time. Sometimes we have
10 leave it in a pile out-of- doors for
some time, but don't like to leave it
IN such place very long. don't leave
II there any longer than have to, and
many times do not put it there at AL,
but haul direct from the stable ard
spread on the land Il like this meth
Oh best when it ian be done. 1t has
been estimated by :eliable authority,
that one half of the manure produced
In the United States is wasted and the
greater part IS wasted by just putting
in pile and letting it take the wealth
er, and by this, much is wasted away.
l don't like TO see a manure pie out
0f-doOrs. II the farmers of this country
would study some Of the methods used
IN the European countries for saving
the manure, and then adopt them in
this country, the profit in farming
would often be doubled and more. But
as long as The American farmers let
millions Of dollars worth of fertility 60
down the rivers, we can never expect
to bring our land 20 the state of rich
ness and productiyeness Of that Of
other nations. We should provide to
allow as little fertility escape from the
farm as possible, ard increase its val
ue by adding more. 1t is hard to esti-
mate just what load Of farm manure
is worth when farmer spreads it on
hts land. It ID there and then the
farmers gets a profit rom it for ten
years, and If ne manages as he SHOULD
he gets compound profit. 1t works
just like compound interest, the more
We use the heavier our crops will be,
and II we feed it, the more manure we
will have for the land. We should pro-
vide enough bedding to absorb all the
liquid manure, as that is the most
valuable. We should provide the best
means for saving all the manure, and
return it to The land for the greatest
profit The question of the waste of
manure is getting to be q serious one.
and it is time the farmers of this en-
lightened country open their eyes and
keep their land instead Of letting 1t
10 -
said that the highest aim Of the farEl-
err should be to keep up and increase
tho fertility Of his land. This is what
I have always tried to do and l flEd
that it pays the largest profit. There is
q proverb which reads-"The manure
pile is the farmers bank and he should
try to have a large deposit there aud
that is just what think. would just
as soon have large deposit in the
manure bank as to have an equally
large one in the national bank; 1t
would count just as much to me. Ane
yet I know a farmer who owns his
farm and gave his large manure pile t.
his neighbor if he would take it out OF
his way. He says there is no pay in
hauling manure. But then l must state
that he is one Of those fellows who has
been wanting to sell out for long
time, and is letting his farm run down,
and by doing this is standing poorer
chance Of selling each day. Some PEG
pie would he satisfied if they could just
squeeze the life out of farm in enc
o;nr rod wi n
bought a run down farm q few years
ago, farm which had been going
down hill for Is years; it was owned
Nv another one of those fellows who
was always wanting to sell, and it took
his Is years to sell, and the man who
now owns it is doing the same thing;
his object is 10 get ali he can ou' OF 1t.
and then sell, but I am afraid ne will
be left. He may have to stay there The
remainder of his days. He has a good
farm IL run right. II he would keep
more stock and feed what he raises
ard return the manure back to the
land. he would in a few years have
much better farm. So say that many
farmers do lot think of the great
value there is in the manure produced
on a 100 acre farm in one year, IL
everything is fed which is grown. II
all of it were saved and applied to the
land without waste, it would amcul:
to many dollars. The great secret OF
farming lies IN manure. Why can not
we put an end to the great waste OF
farm fertility and begin increasing
the value Of our farms? 1t will make
them sell for more money, and our an
Eual profit will be much greater. It
will be an impcssibility for the Amer
lean farmers to have perfect success in
farming until they see and heed the
value Of baryyard manure, and the
great importance Of building up the
land-E. J. Waterstripe, in Agricul-
tural Epitomist