Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-03-10
MANURE SpREADERS
SURE MONEY MAKERS
Stand in the Front Rank Of Profitable
Farm Machinery Now In
Use.
PROVIDES ECONOMICAL DIS
TRiBuTIoN OF FERTILIZER
Restoration Of Fertility in Soil Is
Comparatively Easy When Manure
Is Properly Applied to Land.

II by some means, manure spread
ers could be spread all over this
northwest so thick that there would
be at least one good spreader on every
farm. and then enough manure could
be produced TO keep these machines
profitably busy the Increased yield
and certainty of crops would in our
judgment, says the Dakota Farmer
astonish the last one of us, and glut
all present avenues Of transportation.
AS a fertilizer as a humus maker and
moisture conserver,or as a tanner OF
wild new soils and loosener of gumbo
and clay lands, we'll composed ma
nures lead all competitors. All this
means that manure is as good as
money, and can always be turned into
money and this is not questioned, by
any successful tiller-and-builder Of the
soil. This being So the fact that we'll
made manure sDreaders will add to
the money making power OF average
manures not less than one-third-say
nothing of the labor r-savIng by
spreading evenly over a greatly in-
creased surface thus insuring no in
Jury in spots from too much, and lack
OF results in others by none or too
little. places a good manure spreader
we'll out in the front rank OF all farm
machinery Logically. it should stand
at the very head: for il the producing
power OF the soil is kept up or in
creased. all other machinery will find
profitable and ample employment. but
let that productivity once go, amt the
machinery itself might as we'll go with
enough.
To be sure. manure can be had, and
used without manure spreaders, but
the labor saved by one will eventually
pay for it. but spreading the manure
-thinlY and evenly and over a much
greater surface will bring back its
cost quicker, and many times where
used enough It is simply surpris-
ing how many prairie farmers assert
this. Some OF the most saving, Ssclose-
fisted'' farmers we know Of are the
freest to insist that a manure spread
er is the one thing they cannot afford
to do without
The writer confesses that he was
skentical himself about such claims
when the machines first made their
appearance: but from our own Gbser-
vation We have learned that "ery
little manure often does our prairie
soil as much good as a heavier coat,
and with some soils it does more good.
A very little seems to take the wild
ont of our newer soils as several
Years Of cultiyating cannot. Again., a
little seems to add an astonishing
amount of humus, while too much oft
EN- has the opposite effect unless we'll
assimilated, which is sometimes dlff1-
cult in our dry soils, and especially in
windy dry seasons. Often crops on
land very thinly manured show such
Improvement that it is Impossible to
believe the added fertility could be
the only reason for it. It is only too
evident that the mechanical effect OF
very little thinly applied manure
upnn some soils is even greater than
fts ferilizing power. In fact, some
times it's effect is almost unbelievable
Again good farmers are more and
more putting manure on their mead
ows and pastures and on sod before
turning it over. even top-dress1ng
grain fields under certain conditions.
Here manure. spreader is simply IN
dispensable, and fills the bill perfec-
~. It takes mighty good man to
nut manure out as top dressing with
fork. The greenest boy or tramp
can do far better work with spread
er, an1 do it much easier.
Again, the owner of a good manure