Show GOOD QUALITIES OF MANURI MANUR all growing plants require Cert certain airl food elements which must be secured from the soil some farmers used to have bayo the no tion that the only reason they had foli toi hauling manure onto the fields was to get it out of 0 their way this athla class of men would have thrown ilia iho fertilizer into a hole had one been handy of late it Is difficult to find a farmer who does doea not bellove believe in the fertilizing qualities of manure manure jeanure I 1 Is s tho the cheapest and most efficient fertilizer which the former farmer can use upon ilia his land growing plants require certain food elements which must be secured from the soil all plants require the same ingredients but the amounts vary in different plants the farmer who puts his bis land in good shape during the fall and winter by fertilizing it with manure will raise the big grain crops the following Buni surn roer mer live lire stock manure contains about 80 per cent of the plant food elements contained in the food eaten by the stock this food was taken from the tha soil so it Is only reasonable that it if it Is not returned in some boma form the soil eoll will become depleted barnyard roa nure la Is mixed with bedding which contains the plant food elements taken from the ground that produced its growth naturally this combination la Is not as strong in fertilizing ole elements menta as pure manure but it has immense value as a fertilizer the bedding absorbs the liquids which would other wise vise be a loss Tho organic portion ot of a load of manure is just as valuable ablo for fertilizing purposes as the nitrogen potash acid etc contained it ir the manure before tho 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 |