Show GOOD QUALITIES OF MANUR all growing plants require Cert certain alil food elements which must be secured from the soil some bamo farmers used to have the notion that the only reason they had for hauling manure onto the fields was to get it out of their way this class clasa of men would have thrown the fertilizer into a hole had one been handy of late it Is difficult to find a farmer who does doea not believe in the fertilizing qualities of manure manure la Is the cheapest and most efficient fertilizer which the farmer can use upon his land growing plants require certain food elements which must bo be secured from the soil all plants require tho the same ingredients but the amounts vary in different plants tho the farmer who puts puta his land in good shape during the fall and winter by fertilizing it with via a nure will raise the big grain crops the following summer live stock manure contains about 80 per cent of the plant food contained in the food eaten by the stock this food was taken from the soil so it la Is only reasonable that it it Is not returned in some form tile tho soil will become depleted barnyard ma nuro nure Is mixed with bedding which contains the plant food elements taken from tho the ground that produced its ita growth naturally this combination la Is not as strong in fertilizing elements as pure manure but it has immense value as a fertilizer the bedding absorbs the liquids which would other i wise be a loss the organic portion ot of a load of manure Is just as valuable for fertilizing purposes as tho the fittro gen potash acid etc container contain eu ir id the manure before the organic portion Is of value as a fertilizer it must pass through a process of rotting this process turns it into humus one of the elements in which many soils are most lacking |