The progress., 1904-07-23
FARMER AND PLANTER.
VALUE OF BARNARD MANURE
= Matter That Many Ofherwi~s Isras.
tieaI Tarners t,lve Little
Attention 10.

- ScoAup tuab many u our pEdCtlCal
farmers do not know of the great value
Of barnyard manure. only Judge this
to be SO by ths use they make Of IT.:
that is they make no use of 1t at all,
or nearly so. It is q great loss to let
the manure pile take the weather for
any length Of time. Sometimes we have
to leave 1t in pile out-of- doors for
some time, but don't like to leave It
In such place yery long. don't leave
1t there any longer than have to, and
many times do not put it there at all,
but haul direct from the stable and
spread on the land. like this meth
cd best when 1t ian be done. 1t has
been estimated by reliable 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 1t take the wealth
er. and by this, muoh is wasted away.
| don't like to see a manure pie out
of-doors. II the farmers of this country
would study some Of the methods used
In the European countries for saving
the manure, and tnen adopt them in
this country, the rroft 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 oil 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 1t on
his land. 1t is there and then the
farmers gets profit from 1t for ten
years, and If ne manages as he should
he gets a compound profit. 1t works
just like compound interest, the more
we use the heavier our crops will be,
and If we feed 1t, 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 10 the land for tho greatest
profit The question of the waste of
manure is getting to DC q serious one,
and it is time the farmers Of this en-
lightened country open their eyes and
keep their land instead Of letting it
wash down 10 the sea. have always
said that the highest aim of the farEl-
er should be to keep up and increase
the fertility of his land. This is what
I have always tried to do and find
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 large deposit there" and
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. And
yet l know farmer who owns his
farm and gave his large manure pile tc'
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 hose fellows who has
been wanting to sell out for long
time, and is letting his farm run down,
and by doing this is standing a poorer
chance of selling each day. Some PEG
pie would be satisfied If they could just
squeeze the life OUT of farm in one
year. am acquainted with man who
bought a run down farm few years
ago, a farm which had been going
down hill for rs years; it was owned
by another one of those fellows who
was always wanting to sell, and 1t took
bis 25 years to sell, and the man who
now owns it is doing the same thing; |
his object is 10 yet all he can ou+ of it.
and then sell, but am afraid he will |
be left. He may have to stay there the |
remainder of his days. He has a good |
farm if run right. If he would keep |
more stock and feed what he raises |
and return the manure back to the |
and, he would in few years have a
much better farm. So say that many
farmers do lot think of the great
value there is in the manure produced
IN a 100 acre farm in one year, IL
is fed which is grown. IL
Ill of it were saved and applied to the
and without waste, it would amount
o many dollars. The great secret Of
arming lies in manure. Why can not
We put an end to the great waste of
arm fertility and begin increasing
he value of our farms? 1t will make
hem sell for more money, and our an
.ual profit will be much greater. 1t
sill be an impossibility for the Amer
can farmers to have perfect success in
arming until they see and heed the
-alue of baryyard manure, and the
,reat importance of building up the
and.-E. j. Waterstripe, in Agrical-
ural Epitomist.