Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-26
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dHsW Ore Farmer Saved His Fertilizer
forsths Eeids.

When we moved on our farm we
found a small barn on the place, To-
Gated away cut lin the middle of the
field, some fifteen rods from the house,
with no fence to keep the cattle from
straying all over the meadow when
they were brought IN from the pas
ture
The manure made through the win
ter season wa sthrown out OF the
stable windows and left against the
side of the barn till the time came to
draw 1t out in the spring OF the. year:
There the SHOWS and the rains fell on
it. There the sun beat down upon it
. and the frosts did their part toward
stealing away the goodness of the fer
tilizer made from day to day Away
from those heaps Of manure ran lit
( tie stream Of rich LIQUID manure. In
the spring the grass along the course
of that little river was beautifully
green. There was so much to be cred
tied to the plan Of storing the manure
In that way, but no such streak fol-
lowed the path of the Invisible streams
Of goodness that took their way toward
the clouds. All one could see of that
was the cloud that rose of "a sunshiny
morning, from the piles by the side of
the barn, telling surely Of. the fertility
that was wasting its suhstanee ON the
air -
Although we went to the farm from
life in the city we knew enough to
be sure that that was no way toostors
barnyard manure. We needed every
bit We could make on the farm. All
that went to fertilize- the sky would do
US no good.
So We made up our minds to change
the program so that this loss might be
stopped, continues this correspondent
of Farmers Review. And one day that
barn found itself ,trsYellng across the
fields to 9, site nearer to the house. It
was set upon g. basement and made
about. twice as large as It had sbeen
before. The stables were belew, the
ground floor. and faced away FROM the
shed in the rear, so that we could
throw the manure out under the shed
back Of the stock There it, WAS kept
nice and dry through the winter
months.
70 The horse stables Were convenient
to the cow stables, 80 that Wescould
use the strawy part Of the horse ma
nure for taking Up the liquid manure
in the cutters behind the COWS. This
we believe to be good plan. Horse
manure il stored BY itself viii just
about all burn up with 1re-tsng:e and
be wasted: Mixed with cow, manure
the heating is greatly, II not entirely.
7lessened and so the value OF the, Whole
increased
By using plenty Of straw foE sbsd-
ding the cows we. also added to the
amount Of home made fertilizer; pro
auced on the farm This aided much
toward keeping the, COWS dry and
clean while shut up in the barn
through the winter season. Many
farmers are not as careful about this
as they might be. Their, cows are, left
to lie on the bare, cold foor-They
show 1t, too, in the flth-laden sides OF
their bodies. 49,
Some have called me g. crank on |
this subject of barnyardd manure That |
is all right. II I can save ywhat natural
~ belongs to the. farm and give it |
back to the farm, it emsfto, ne that |
1 am in that way making my farm so I
much the better. The fact is We might |
do much toward putting a stop to the /
cry@of exhausted farming. lands il we
would take more pains to save the fer
tility that naturally belongs to the |!
farm. By keeping more cows and feed (
ing out all the stuff produced We can T
bring our farms back to their native |
state of fertility. It is worth doing /
too. {