The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-07-02
FARMER PLANTER.
VALUE OF BARNYARD MANURE
4 Matter That MANY OtneruIs. prue-
teal Farmers Give Little
Attention 10.

II seems hat many of our practical
Farmers do no know Of the great value
OF barnyard manure. | only Judge lais
to be SO by the use they make of it;
that is, they make no use of il at all,
or nearly so. 1t is a great loss to LEI
the manure pile take the weather for
any length Of time. Sometimes we have
to leave it in a pile out-of- doors for
some time, but don't like to leave 1t
III such a place 7ery long. don't leave
1t there any longer than | have to, and
many times do not put it there at al,
but haul direct from the stable anG
spread on the land | like this meth
cd best when it IAN be done. 1t has
been estimated by reliable authority,
that n half Of the manure produced
in the United States is wasted and the
greater part IS wasted by just putting
in a pile and letting it take the wealth
er, and by this, much Is wasted away.
| don't like 10 see a manure pie out
of-doors, If the farmers of this country
would study some of the methods used
IN h European countries for saving
the manure, and tnen adopt them in
this country, The rroft in farming
would often he doubled and more. Bat
as long as The American farmers let
millions of dollars worth of fertility GO
down the rivers, we can never expect
to bring our land 20 the state of rich.
ness and product feness OF that OF
other nations. We should provide to
allow as little fertility escape from the
farm as possible, ard increase its val
lie by adding more. II is hard to esti-
mate just what a load of farm manure
is worth when a farmer spreads it on
his land. 1t is there and then the
farmers gets a profit from it 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 it, the more manure we
Will have for tho 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
it 10 he land for the greatest
profit. The question of the waste of
is getting to be a serious one.
it is time the farmers of this ell
ightened country open their eyes and
lcep their land instead Of letting il
wash down 10 the sea. | have always
aid that the highest aim of The farm
II should be to keep up and increase
he fertility Of his land. This is what
have always tried to do and | Grd
hat it pays the largest profit. There is s
proverb which reads-"The manure
lie is the farmers bank and he should
ry to have a large deposit there" aud :
lat is just what | think. I would lust
Il soon have a large deposit in the
lanule bank as to have an equally
.rge n in the national bank; ii 8
'Culd count Just as much to me. And f
| know a farmer who owns his |
2rm and gave his large manure pile t. {
is neighbor if he would take it out Of :
is way. He says there is no pay il :
manure. But then | must state f
lat he is one Of those fellows who has I
cen wanting to sell out for a long
me, and IS letting his farm run dow c
nd by doing this is standing a poorer Y
lanCe of selling each day. Some peO- |
.e would he satisfied if they could just f
lueeze the life out of a farm in one '
ar, ! am acquainted with d man who il
ought a .un down farm a few yeats Il
20, a farm which had been going "
own hill for Is years; it was owned II
another one of those fellows who t.
always wanting to sell, and it took il
S % years TO sell, and the man who
wv owns it IS doing the same thing;
s object is 10 get all he car ou. of it.
ID then sell, but l am afraid he will
left. He may have to stay there The Y,
mainder of his days. He has a good II
I'm if run eight. If he would keep a
ore stock and feed what he raises in
d return the manure back to the
he would in a few years have a ~,
UGH better farm. So | say that many ~
rmers do lot think of the great ar
lue there is in the manure produced f.,
a 100 acre farm in one year, II
erything is fed which is grown. if
of it were saved and applied to the -
Id without waste, it would amount ~
many dollars. The great secret Of =
ming lies in manure. Why can not ~
put an end to the great waste of az
m fertility and begin increasing
, value of our farms? 1t will make Id
I'm sell for more money and our an ca
al profit will be much greater. 1t Se
be an i~mpcssibility for the Amer ou
farmers TO have perfect success in On
ming lntil they see and heed the VIC
ne Of baryyard manure, and the
Importance Of building up the sh'
de. j. Waterstripe, in AgriCul- Nc
al Epitomist, ~
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