The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
Fail Manuring of Land.

No argument is required to prove
the advantage and profit of thorough
ly manuring land on the average farm,
says the Farmers Review. One has
only to look at pasture in spring to
see that spots are covered with verdant
growth of coarse grass while the other
parts Of the field are scantily clad
The rank growths appear where horse
or cattle droppings have fallen and
show by the Vigor of their growth that
fertilization has been effective and
| beneficial. Recognizing the advisablity
of manuring it is then a mystery why
| the matter is not more systematically
attended to. On many farms boy and
team will be seen at odd moments
hauling out a load or two of manure
| TO be distributed in irregular heaps at
one side of a pasture, meadow or stub
! BILE. These heaps are often allowed to
remain unspread throughout the win
! ter and by spring have lost most of
| their fertilizing properties. Had the
manure been hauled out quickly and
Immediately spread where it would do
most good the entire field would have
| been benefited. This fact shows that
there is great advantage in employing
d manure spreading machine and such
machines have now been improved
and reduced in price so that they are
thoroughly effective and practically
within the reach of all. They do their
work well. spread the manure evenly
and if used daily make the work of
getting all of the manure onto the
land an easy matter and one that
amy boy or man will not object to.
Under the old system manure hauling
and spreading has been work that few
hired hands or farm boys cared to do,
hs.N
n manure spreader. 1t is d satisfac-
ton to be relieved of the old-time
laboriOus and unpleasant task and
the WOrkmen admire and appreciate
the admirable work of the modern
improved machine. The grass lands
are doubtless the best areas on which
to spread manure in fall There is
little time to get the manure onto the
stubbles as they have to be plowed
just as soon as possible after sea-
eonable rains have fallen. The grass
lands are also better to haul out upon
as they offer a firm and smooth sur
face for the wagon wheels and old
sod so MANFRED will bring fine crop
of corn. or similarly treated pastures
carry two beasts to acre where
but one was previously maintained. In
preparing for this work every pos
sible scrap of material that will serve
as fertilizer should be made ready
by heaping and turning or composing
along with coarse manure or lime and
earth. 1t is a more difficult matter
to spread long manure than that
which has been well made and for
this reason many now believe in heap
ing manure and turning it to stinu-
late decomposition. This work is UNI
necessary where the manure is to be
hauled out and spread in fall. 1t is
right practice for manure that is to be
used as top dressing in spring when
1t is placed upon pastures or meadows
and narrowed in or is used to plow
under on corn land or that set apart
for root or potato production. Where
Workmen are scarce and high-priced
the best plan is to haul out the ma
nure each day as made and this is no
great task if the wagon spreader be
used as a receptacle for the manure,
as the stables are cleaned. In dairy
ing some men keep the spreader
standing at the end of the barn and
pitch the manure directly into it, then
send it to the field when full and have
the manure spread at once, so that
none of the virtues of the fertilizer
are lost. Where cattle are fed in
courts the better way is perhaps to
throw the manure and daily layers of
straw under the feet of the cattle and
then clean out the yards in spring.
This makes lots of work when there
is little time to do it in spring and !
the manure so made is long, wet and
cold. 1t is better than to clean out
the yard now and then and put the
manure in a heap to be forked over
that it may decompose, shorten and
become heated. III that case care
must be taken to keep the pile well
covered with earth or other substance
to retain ammonia and other valuable
. III. \
be caught and returned to the heap at
intervals to prevent overwhelming or
fire fanging" as it is called. The
spreader does fine work with COM
posted manure and as good with that
which is hauled out daily from sta
bles where little bedding is used, but
cannot be expected to work so we'll
with long manure and especially if 1t
contains corn stalks, as is usually
the case where cattle are fed. No
matter how the manure is got out or
spread, however, the main thing is to
get il out promptly and put it where II
is most needed and i'm such shape that
1t will do the most good. We cannot
now farm successfully on old land
without utilizing every scrap of ma
nure made annually and the sooner
we recognize the fact the better will
il be for all concerned There is no
good excuse for not getting out the
manure. There is plenty of time to
do the work if the plan is but consid-
cred absolutely necessary, profitable
and timely. 1t is not work that can
safely be left undone until slack days
or be placed in the hands of the boys
who do not recognize the Importance
of the work or see any personal profit
therein. Learn TO regard manure
making, hauling and spreading as one
if the most important businesses of
the farm ana II will be attended to
much better than Il is at the present
time on the average farm.