Gunnison news-champion., 1919-10-17
,fIfk VALUE 0raaa,URi? 9 Q
on MziaIt!lHlflN FARaeS
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better. but the mechanieal sad bac-
terial action that setuaIIy improves
Lsas Cssti.sias Rfsefs
| For manure, unlike commercial
fertilizers, is not exhausted in . sea-
son Its beneficial effects are long
continuing. Its mechanical alters
tion Of the soil enables the Bacterial
content to work. Il opens the way for
these processes that enrich, that lib
crate the fertility Of Ii e soil and
make il available for plant life, and
at the same time by Q never ending
cycle enrich the soil - well. A prop
eriy manured held, rotated In crops
suitable to the soil, ID never exhant-
ed. No other process Of fertilization
will give ~ long lasting or - uni
formly successful results.
Hence the manure on the farm d
one Of the value products. Il can
not. Of course, be sold OF At the
prices Of grain. but Il can and dees
produce such IN increase in the guam
tity and such . betterment Of the
quantity Of the grain that Il becomes
At once the mainstay for soil fertility.
Seal Fertility Deereasing
That 1t has not be % appreciated
in times past 10 one Of the coutribut-
ing causes Of the great decrease In
soil fertility shown b many COM
munities. That Il will Be considered
Of first importance in modern agri-
cultural work goes without saying.
i unvHra th> <.s,n~H{~~ - az k~.k -
stable manure of the best means Of
conserving It and applying It, becomes
Of the utmost importance to the
farmer.
For soil must be fed II 1t is to pro-
duce. Not alone must il receive pot
ash, phosphorus and nitrogen, either.
The use Of these in their native states
is necessary. II has been the mis-
fortune Of American farming that 30
little attempt has been made to con-
serve the soil fertility that many
millions Of acres are sending out an
emergency cry for more Of these nee
cessary chemicals to produce and sus-
tain life. After man Is sick, he must
take medicine that restores him. But
before he is sick is tho time to build
up his strength.
Keeping Soil Healthy
So II Is with the soil. Not only
must the sick soil receive help, and
that quickly, but the soil that Is in
ordinarily good health must receive
feed to keep up its strength, to in
crease its productiveness, and to re-
tain its liability. No amount Of
chemical fertilizer will do this. So
far as known to man, the only sub
plant e-sustainer IL the stable ma
stance that acts as an all round
nure. It Is, rs the writer in the
George Bulletin says, without salts
factory explanation Of its superiority
to other manures. But that need
not hinder q man from getting the
the chemicals that makes his crops
Stable manure. therefore. from these
reasons. and because II Is usually OBJ
tainable. Ii the niainstay OF the Ameri-
can farmer. and Its uses are OF estim-
able value. whether for its fertiIixing
effect its mechanical Improvement o.
Client bacterial growth.
Al q Messy yalue
y number OF tables have been pre-
pared to show the value as a fertilizer
OF the dropings from the different ami
mails on the farm. These are ali too
say Sss that no appear hereto hereto put .uiliSs TO
carried on and covering a number OF
years on different plots Of ground the
atsSouIt r<xpcTiment 6tatiOn proved
lconciusively that the excreta from cows
fed on rich. weii-baianced dairy ra-
ltionproduced better and more lasting
results than the droppipgs from any
other animal on the farm.
DIR. Vivian. of the Ohio State Univer-
sity. figuring the returns from a herd
nxures as the fertiii.ing Value for one @
year. Note that this oes not take ac-
count of the humes added to the soil
and also note that these figures are
taken on pre-war prices OF these
chemicals:
Value of nitrogen inmanure. 81, ,l5S. Is
Il Value Of Pho.phoric acid..... 1919
Value Of potash in manure -. 477.s5
Total. ........... .iaosl.22
4 This represents . return value from
the manure of each COW OF 341.88. which
10 one OF the reasons why dairying pays
80 well. to say the least.
The large number Of spreaders re-
Gently purchased by Gunnison ranch
men indicates that our people are
alive to the value Of manure as dem
Onstrated in the aboye article II