Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-09-02

USm6nd, Of this city, as a student
at the state agricultural college
last year. He received an excel
lent grade on the same, and we
believe it will be of interest to
our readers, especially coming
from a home. boy
Farm manure always has and
probably always be the most i'm
portant and most abundant ma
terial for soil Improvement.
According to Lyons & Fippin,
manure is described as follows:
"A manure is any solid substance
added to the soil to make it more
productive In this paper l will
not. try to deal with any other
than barnyard manure, and will
ieaVe out green manureS and al
so chemical fertilizers.
'.As it is a necessary product
On every farm and on stock farms
which accumulates in very large
amounts, it will, if not used for
soil improvement, become a worth
less nuisance about the stables,
either in the city or in the coun-
try 1t has been estimated that
the annual production of farm ma
nure in the United States is two
billion tons. The actual agricul
ture value Of fresh farm manure
containing both the liquid and
solid excrement is not less than
81 per ton, whether the value is
measured in terms of plant food
elements actually contained in the
manure, as determined by chemi-
cal analysis of the manure and
the market value of these ele-
ments, or whether the value is
measured by the actual increase
In crop yields produced by the
use of the manure on ordinary
long cultivated soils.
ss"Fresh farm manure if left ex-
posed to the weather for 6 months
during the summer will lose one
half Of its total weight in dry
matter and. more than one half
ltSs value as a fertilizer. Yet. in
most of the states there is an en-
OrmOuS waste of farm manure. In
some of the United States and
foreign countries the people save
the manure with the greatest of
care, although ingOrant, shiftless,
or ShOrt-Sighted people do not.
The result is that the former class
OF farmers have neat barn yards
and a good bank account. while
the latter have unsightly yards
and live from hand to mouth. It
has been said and figured out
that the amount of manure vast
ed in the United Statse is more
than ten times as valuable as all
the commercial fertilizers used in
this country, Some people will
waste their barnyard manure and
at the same time be buying COM
fertilizers. In such cases
The fertilizers which are used are
generally acid phOSphates, which
Is commonly applied in amounts
that supply less plant food than /
the crop removes; the amount
OF sOluable plant food applied be-
ing supplemented by that which
the So 3d. I'D naturally give up,
valuation of the can oe Iorceu
We pledge our ! stimulating
can senators and i 'OrloSi'e
to vote and work
laws that will prev 10 how to
tallzatiOn of corporate remove
require all moneys rex or so,
the sale of stocks and a large
be actually invested for y, Most
Fit of the property owned bier !
corporation.
We pledge our members of con
greSs to continue the policy o
the Republican party now firml.
established Of caring for the sol
dierS and sailors of the war O
the rebellion and for those VIII
carried the flag of liberty to tn,
oppressed of other lands, and W
believe that the limitation of tim,
imposed on soldiers in filing tn,
claims for arrears of pension
should be removed.
We pledge our Republican Con
greSsmen and senators to vote OF
all measures concerning the con
ServatiOn Of our natural resOurc
eS, along the lines advocated b!
former President Roosevelt as Op
posed to the lines laid down by
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