Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-02-07
THE MANURE spREApER A SYM
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owner, operating a manure spreader,
we at once raise our estimation oil
that unknown farmer at least twenty
five per cent. The farm may look
like what the ScOtchman calls a
"widdy's farm; it may bear evidence
of having been rented farm, rent
ed grain farm, farm rented on a
one-year lease; but we know that
that manure spreader will change the
appearance of the whole farm. We
know that this man is already begin
ming to handle some kind of live
stock, else he would not have enough
manure to spread. The farmer who
has a manure spreader is like the
boy who is sprouting a mustache, or
the girl who has put on long dresses
and bound up her hair instead Of let
ting it hang around her shoulders.
They are progressive; they are get
ting ready for the battle Of life. So
is the farmer who buys a manure
spreader. |
Once man buys manure spread
er, there is good reason to believe
that the manure will be hauled out.
We once had a tenant whom we nev-
er could get to haul out the manure
as he should, until, in desperation,
we bought him a manure spreader.
He found it was as easy to load the
manure on the spreader as on a wa
gon. Then when he got out into the
field and turned that lever, and saw
it throwing the manure out over the
hind wheel and spreading it as he
never could have spread it, the temp
tation 10 go back and get another
load right quick and keep on at it IN
til it was all out was too great to be
resisted.
Manure is now worth from two to
three dollars a ton, provided it is
gotten out as fast as made. The
longer it lies, the less it is worth;
and there is nothing that will so in
duce the farmer to get it out as to
have a manure spreader. The farm
er then soon discovers that it is a
much easier thing, much more re.
spectacle thing, and much more
gentlemanly thing, to have it thus
spread at once than to put it in
piles where it will lie indefinitely anG
lose its value by bleaching or max.
ing spots over the field where there
is too much, and elsewhere too little,
Or lying in Jumps.
Whether you own a manure spread
er or not, don't remain in bondage
to the old system. Farmers are find.
ing out that under the old system
they had to put on too much manure
in order to get anything like an even
spread. They are finding out that
half the amount put on with the
spreader is worth as much as the full
amount scattered in the old way, witt
infinite pains and labor.
There is hope for a man, even il
he is in debt and discouraged, if he
once reaches the point of buying, hir
ing or borrowing a manure spreader
1t puts new heart in him. It gives
the land the full value of the manure
and at the minimum of expense
Those who have tried it know wha
stimulus a coating of manure givel
to grass land. After the pastures
have been MANFRED with spreade,
they seem to say, Thank YOU" b!
the way they increase in growth
They really multiply it by this in
crease in the growth of vegetable
matter; and when it is turned unde
and put in corn, there is a chance o
sixty, eighty and a hundred bushel
per acre.
In short, the manure spreader is {
means Of grace to the land, and
symbol of progress in the farmer. w
investigated this subject more thai
twenty years ago. We found out b,
actual experience the value we hav,
ascribed to it above. The higher tn,
price of land becomes, the higher tn,
price Of grain becomes, the higher tn
price Of live stock becomes, the great
er the value Of manure, and the great
er the value Of the manure spreader
Its use will increase until the mai
who is growing live stock will not fee
that he is respectable and entitled t,
the confidence Of his neighbors an,
his creditors, unless he owns a ma
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