The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-07-25
ARE WE BETTER THAI
THE HINEUS?
Here's One Place At L.e:aa,,-.:
Where We're Not

Down In India, where tie EG1'1
lack education as well as money, Wi.erl
man works for fifty CENTS q month
and where girl babies Used fo D.
drowned with even less thought 4 Til;
parents part than cats ere drowneu
here, the people use manure for fuel,
But what has been the result? Misery
and famine have stalked in the land go
grim Spectres too awful even TO be
described. During the famine Of 1870,
over ten million people died in the
Province of Bengal alone. To-day there
are over $50, 900 square miles of waste
land, waste because the natives lack
the intelligence to use fertilizer, lack
intelligence to use proper methods for
tilling the soil, lack intelligence 10
rotate their crops.
At first thought it is ridiculous to
compare the modern American farmer
with the Hindu. We grow more pc.
man than any other farmers in the
world, due to our use of efficient
machinery. We not only feed our
selves, but help feed the world. But
just let us make this one comparison.
While we are not burning manure for
fuel, yet many of us allow chemical
action to burn it for US. In piles the
manure ferments and heats, as you
know. This heating process goes on
while you sleep, goes on "a hours in
day without saving you even the eX-
pense Of fuel for cooking or furnish
Ing heat to keep you warm. Now,
after all, in this one little matter,
isn't the Hindu better economist
than the man who throws manure in
a pile and lets it lie until chemical
action has burned up a large portion
Of the plant foodp
Fire Fangins" Loses Half Manure's Va'7e
The Cornell Experiment. Station
carried ON an experiment. along this
line. Four thousand pounds Of horse
manure was thrown In q pile April
25th and left there until September
22nd. Only Ito pounds remained.
Its commercial value had deprecated
from &5.48 to $2.03. This kind of a
loss Is going on on many farms right
in this community. Hundreds of tons
Of available plant food are being liter
ally burned up.
Many seem rather self satisfied
when they get the manure out of the
way. To get it out of the barnyard
On to tho field in piles seems 70 be
their aim, but heating in piles goes
On Just the same in the field q It does
In the barnyard, and while the barn
yard II not being fertilized, yet only
certain spots In the field are.
Spread SpreaA Spesad
The thing to do this year Of all years
Il to spread, spread, sfvsa& Hand
Is, Of course, better than
none, but it Is disagreeable and liable
10 be neglected. Machine spreading
IL the easy, paying way. Not only
does 1t make the manure 60 twice as
far, but It saves 80 much time and
labor that spreading can be done
Experiments tell us that |
when the manure Is spread It dries |
out and this stops fermentation or
loss Of ammonia. Furthermore, II |
rains come, the plant food 10 washed
into the sofl evenly over every acre.
Many experiments have shown spread
~ 70 pay for themselves I'm one season
81 tho crop increases they produce On
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