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SAVING BARNARD MANURE.
How One Farmer Saved His Fertilizer
for the Felds

When we moved on our farm we
found a small barn on the place, To-
Gated away out in the middle of the
held, 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
1t. There the sun beat down upon it
and the frosts did their part toward
stealing away the goodness of the fer
uhzer 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 substance on the
air.
Although we went to the farm from
a life in the city we knew enough to
be sure that That was no way to store
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 travelling across the !
fields to site nearer to the house. 1t |
was set upon a basement and made |
about twice as large as it had been
before. The stables were below 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.
The horse stables were convenient |
TO the COW stables, so that we could |
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 a good plan. Horse
manure if stored by itself will Just
about all burn up with fire-fang and
be wasted. Mixed with COW manure
the heating is greatly, if not entirely,
lessened and so the value Of the whole
increased.
BY using plenty of straw for bed
ding the cows we also added to the
amount of homemade fertilizer pro-
duced 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 floor. They
show it, too, in the filth-laden sides of
their bodies.
Some have called me a crank on
this subject of barnyard manure. That
is all right If | can save what natural
iy belongs to the farm and give it
back TO the farm, II seems to me that
] am in that way making my farm so
much the better. The fact is we might
do much toward putting stop to the
cry of exhausted farming lands if 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
bring our farms back to their native
state of fertility. 1t is worth doing,
too.