The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1913-09-17
Getting the Most Ont Of
the farm Manure,

Is over TO clean the manure ana
litter out of the horse and COW
stalls, and the cattle, hog and sheep
sheds, and to haul out the REM
nants of old straw stacks and the
tramped-down and rotting material
surrounding them. All such ma
terial should be scattered on the
land and now is the time to do it.
The winter feeding season will
soon be here and this means the
accumulation of large amount of
manure, which if correctly saved
and applied is exceedingly valua-
BILE. Every hundred pounds of
stable manure is worth 10 to 10
cents, every ton from $500 to
SO. 90. The liquid is more valuable
than the solid and should therefore
be saved by the use of ample bedd-
ing material.
Improper handling of manure
results in great loss. Careful tests
have shown that it loses half its
value in six months if exposed to
the weather in the ordinary ma
nure pile. Care must be taken to
prevent heating, teaching an d
waste of the urine. Most of this
loss is prevented when stock, such
as cattle and mules, are fed in
sheds. the manure being tightly
compacted by the tramping of the
stock, which excludes the air and
prevents heating, the urine being
saved by abundant bedding, and
the sheltered situation preventing
lcaching by rains.
/ On account of sanitary consider
ations manure can not be allowed
thus to accumulate in the dairy
barn. in which case it should be
removed to shed or covered pit
to prevent loss. 1t pays to pro-
vide such protection for the COW
manure, but if the dairyman does
not have a shed or pit the manure
should not be allowed to accumu-
late, but should be regularly haul
ed away and scattered.
One advantage of live stock
farming is that it furnishes a sup
ply of manure. The stock farmer
keeps most of his farm in grass,
hay and forage crops, and this
means that the plant food is kept
in the soil and the land is prevent.
ed from washing. He carefully
saves and applies the manure
an d his land grows more pro.
ductive each year. Good crops
can not be grown without manur.
ing the land in some way-either
by commercial fertilizers, green
manure crops, or stable manure,
and for Kentucky farms stable
manure is by far the most profit,
able means of fertilizing.
The writer in his own farm
practice has hauled and scattered
many hundreds of loads of stable
manure. Much of this was placed
on washed, thin, and quilted land,
and on this land to-day are grow
ing rank sods of grass.
kentucky farmers have in the
past failed sadly in making the
most of their stable manure. Or
thousands of farms there are fields
that have been cropped for gener.
ations without the application of &
single forkful of manure. With
proper attention given to fertili
cation, with stable litter supple
mented by the rational use O.
ground limestone and ground phos
phate rock, and with good rotation
systems the crop yield of h ,
state could be doubled in the mex
generation.
Undoubtedly our farmers will
find this work highly profitable
In a recent address in Kentucky
DIR. G. G. Hopkins, of Illinois
said There is no investment which
an honest man can make which
will pay so high returns as tim,
and money spent judiciously il
land Improvement" and it Nigh
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