Show I I BARNYARD MANURE VALUABLE PRODUCT Five Tons TOI to Acre Sugar Beets Beet Gave Largely Increased Yield Farm manure is one of ot the vcr very valuable valuable val val- products of tho the farm a ton five application yearly yearl for a a. short period perIod producing producing two tons of or sugar suar beets for fora a ton ion of manure according to the tho re results re- re suIts of or several fo years years' experimental work Dr by F F. S S. Harris director and agronomist of or tho the Utah Uth experiment sta sta- tion Tho The experiments were conducted on the stations station's staton's irrigated farm tarm at tt Logan and ad dr dry farm at Nepal Manure applied to sugar suar beets at tho the rate of or ten tons to the acre acro gave e 3 an a Increase in yield of about one ton of ot beets for each ton of 01 manure Five tons tone to the aero acre aro gave nearl nearly two tons of beets beet for tor each ton of or manure maure but where as much a. a as forty tons to tho acre acro were appl applied d the tho to Increase was only about tenths four-tenths of ot a a ton ton Increase Potatoe Poto potao Yield Were Where potatoes were at at the rate rato of 01 five tons to tho the nero aero the tho yield was increased cd b by nearly thirteen els for each ton of manure but where fort forty tons wore were applied the increase was as only 43 3 bushels for tor each ton of 01 manure manure- manure Experiments were cre also conducted with IH wheat I i oats and corn under 1 Ir- Ir 11 D D Y v n v Ui j farm conditions all al 0 of which showed a distinct beneficial effect but the use I of manure manuro on o expensive crops such as a sugar beets and potatoes gave bae a a higher high high- er or return for tor each ton of manure when hen applied to heat v and oats Dr Harris says sas that tha the tho soils sons nf of Utah have been boen considered unusually f fertile and as a result the tho proper use uso of manuro manure has haa ha been delayed as In annew all an new countries In regions ions of Intensive agriculture considerable demand has h developed for tor manure but most farmers farmers farm farm- ers have havo no definite defnie Idea as to Just what the value valne Ine of tho the manure manuro is Is It was to get g-et definite Information on the tho I response of Utah soils sols to farm manure that the tho e experiments were conducted I This mat material lal which was WS tho the subject of or a paper that attracted considerable att attention at the recent meeting of or the Utah Academy of ot Sl Science nce is now beIn being be be- In ing ing- published as bulletin 17 of oC the Utah experiment station entitled The Tho Value of ot Barnyard Brnard Manure on Utah Sol Soils c Dr Harris expects It to be b ready for tree free tee distribution within tho the next tow few da days The bulletin which will wl contain con con- tam tain about twenty-one twenty pa pages es gives ives the tho results both graphically and in compiled com corn piled pied form fon to together ether with wih a 3 short Il ii- ii 1 discussion 1 cu slon on tho the care and md handling of farm rm manure |