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Show APPLYING THE MANURE. " Very Little of tie Valuable Elements Escape by Evaporation, Says a Canadian Expert. According to James McFndyean, an experlmsnt conducted at tho Ottawa experiment ex-periment farm and covering a period ot jears, indicated that an equal weight of fresh stable manure nnd of well rotted rot-ted manurs wcro of practically the same aIuo for application to all the principal crops. Practically the same results havo thus far been obtained at that station. Mr. McKadyoan says: It Is a great mistake to bellove that manuro wastes to nny extent when spread upon tho lnnd. Unless thero Is considerable fermentation, there will very little of tho valuable elements escape es-cape by evaporation. I do not recommend recom-mend too heavy an application at ono time. We seek to hare' It divided so that It will cover all tho land every second sec-ond year, If possible. If tho manure Is reasonably short, no that we may have it Incorporated Into tho surface soil with the disc or spado harrow, cultivator or gang plow In tho spring, and so about the samo depth as wn wish to sow our grain, Its Indirect value to the growing crop Is greatest Farmyard mnnure Is the most natural and perfect plant food avalable, and it has Indirect results that no commercial fertilizer can give, bo-:ause bo-:ause It adds to tho soil so much vegetable vegeta-ble tnnttcr, so much humus, tiy which all clay nnd sandy soils especially are greatly benefited, though not Just yet available as plant food. Dut whenever thero ls a decaying of egctahle matter there Is always a degree of heat formed. Wo seo this very plainly In tho manuro heap. Then let us have this heat formed In tho soil, that the growing plants may dcrhe sorao benefit from It, and the soil will bo made mora mellow, crumbly and porous, because of the heat and moisture. |