Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-20

i Care and Application Of Farm Ward 4
=: Manure.
Address by T. g. RAYNOR.
One of the most important things
for farmer to consider Is the manure
pile. In order to get good crops ont
Of the essential things is supply o.
available plant food. The three
essential elements of this plant food
supply are nitrogen, phosphoric acio
and potash.
Farm yard manure contains these.
three elements and is called q general
manure? OF these three nitrogen Is
the most liable to get away from us
We can hold the other two because
they are mineral. Nitrogen is also
the most valuable at market prices
for commercial fertilizers, nitrogen ie
worth twice as much as phosphoric
acid aud about three times as much
IS potash.
10 the application to farm yard
manure to soils, we will sustain little
or no loss of the two mineral manures.
but nitrogen may 60 either up in the
air or down in the soil, 80 that plants
may not benefit by it on our own
farms at least. With these facts in
view in handling manure, we should
never let it heat to fire fang, nor even
to the point of steam rising from it.
We should never let it be washed by
the water from our buildings, and we
should always look closely after the
liquid manure to have it absorbed by
straw or other good absorbents as
muck and get it in the soil. The
reason for this is seen, when we know
that as q result of chemical analysis
that the liquid manure is worth four
times as much as the solid in the
horse. In the COW about twice and in
The case of the pig about equal.
One Of the best ways to economic
in time, labor and money aud at the
same time get the best all around re-.
suits is to haul it fresh from the
stables to the piece of land to which
it is to be applied and spread IS you
60. To those who can afford q
manure spreader it is An excellent
machine.
Another good way in caring for
manure is to keep as much of the
stock in box stalls as possible, and
keep adding fresh litter from time to
time, and then clean them out once In
the week or two times, hauling II
direct to the field and spreading it
A third way is to have . manure shed
and mix the manure of all the stock,
allowing the brood stock and sows or
it, to keep it tramped firmly to prevent
fermentation. Then when hauling oul
spread it as you 20. Where it is tc
be applied for a hoe crop, it may b@
scattered say this winter on meadow
and to be used for pasture this sum
mer. Plow the meadow in the fall and
prepare for corn in the spring.
Sometimes it may be advisable
where fine enough to use on q spring
crop. There it will help to proven,
the land from baking and retain q
good deal of moisture, and if grass
seeds have been sown it will be q
great telp to the young plants.
The way to get the most benefit from
the manure as g fertilizer is to keep il
as near the surface as possible
Farm yard manure is q great benefit
to the soil in q mechanical way.
1t adds humus or decayed vegetable
matter to the soil which aids in the
water and plant food, holding power
of the soil. 1t helps on the work o.
unlocking lazy plant food. It tiet
light soil together aud loosens heavy
ones. Let US have more manure tc
grow more crops to feed, more stock
to make more money.