Show BIG VALUE OF WHEAT STRAW of great importance in absorbing liquid manure on an the farm ways waya of english farmers I 1 stock steel farmers realize that the g great rent value of straw to la as aa an absorbent of the liquid manure on the farm when thus absorbed by straw or corn stalks so BO far as aa tho the fertilizing ele elements menta are concerned this liquid manure to is about equal to the solid farmers realize the great value of a straw stuck when cattle are fed in the open and comfortably fort ably bedded and the straw Is rapidly decomposed still we doubt it oven even the best farmers realize the full value of straw english farmers are obliged to utilize all waste and their chemists tell us that straw presumably wheat straw lias has a value of about seven shillings per long ton and a mechanical ch anical value when applied to the land of about seven shillings more or a little over fa 3 per short ton or 2 f pounds it may seem surprising that they figure the mechanical value as an equal to the fertilizing value but we have no doubt that on almost any kind of land this estimate is correct |