Show TRUCK GROWERS KEEP FEW COWS small herds of animals being maintained for purpose of obtaining fertilizer SURPLUS MATERIAL MATERI iU UTILIZED practice of keeping live stock li Is to D do strongly recommended in sections where it can 0 be done profitably tP thresia resia a by the united state atal department of agriculture tri k growers and brunhouse gr tile in t aste ait states are anre finding it increasingly tHill cult to secure a supply pl of bitable manure and some growers have adoli adopted ted tile lie practice of keell ing a small heru of cows or other stock for the purpose of supplying ma laiture iture and nil its u means of utilizing surplus or waste material the alie leui lein of maintaining soil boll fertility un ler jer present condition auditions R wits ia discus sed nt it the recent meeting of tin the vegetable table gricis Groc Gro cis rs association of america at t albany Al linny N X Y and it vilis vas vi lis the opinion of the vegetable legi table growers and state federal workers present that tile lice of keeping live le stock Is to be strongly recommended in sections where this call be dune done profitably scarcity of plant food the tb e head of the vegetable garden lepart department ment or of the hie massachusetts aarl cultural collego college reported that A study of the census shows shotts that the decrease in horses in massachusetts from 1010 to 1020 1920 Is such that tower lever acres call now be furnished with 20 tons of stable manure per acre than in 1010 to this loss in plant food which alch was fori formerly obtained from stable in manure arture will require the expenditure of between 1 wid even then we luck lack that all important on oct of tile the inoculated organic matter contained til in manure anti for foi which alch no equally efficient substitute has blen been found while this disregards tile cost of tha manure formerly used to supply HIP plant food it la Is probable that it wv much less than the cost of tho the fAnti lizer no now purchased tills this lein Is not confined to tiny any one state but with a few local exceptions Is being felt throughout the territory in ili cli vegetable ege tabIe crops are grown gron for the markets at the lexington mass field station dilleh Is conducted under the direction of tile the tennte iol college loge of ag ri culture us its an experiment station what are termed manure economy ily invests tin estimations mat gat ions tire are being conducted in these tests the use of stable manure in mod erate crate quantities Is being supplemented aw 1 A k I 1 U ll 11 k t s k problem of keeping live stock to maintain soil sell fertility la Is not confined to any one section by commercial fertilizers soll crops crop rotations and other means of maintaining soil fertility waste waite li Is utilized growers of crops such as pens p e as and sweet corn have for years past p as t followed the practice of utilizing the vines unes fodder end and other waste in the hie form of silage for the feeding of sheep beef cattle or dalry dairy cows cons this practice supplying them with large quantities of manure renewed Ilc need attention Is now being directed to tills this practice atice and in sections where the V ni corn borer has milde made its appearance pe arance orance many growers have found it desirable to erect silos for the utilization of the lie surplus material feeding fill this x to 10 their heir stock thereby securing manure manura for their crops and also largely controlling the corn borer the united states department or of agriculture strongly recommends these practices wherever reier condition will H warrant arrant the keeping of lle live stock |