Show PROFIT FROM MANURE areat ANNUAL LOSS IS CAUSED BY CARELESS management well kept heap Is surest sign of thrift and success in farming importance of fertilizer Is not fully appreciated every crop removed from the soil takes from it mater lala which have been used in building up the plants tissue soil with no fertility added and which annually bears a crop must in time become exhausted ot ita store of valuable plant food and unfit to bear further profitable crops sub stances which are added to the soil A manure spreader Is very valuable on any farm la order to replace the ingredients which have been removed by previous crops are called manures the oldest and most common form of manure Is the farm manure of all fertilizers this Is the most popular early roman writers called attention to the tact that the addition of the excreta of farm animals to the soil resulted in increased production and from that time to the present the majority of farmers have placed their reliance on this class of manures for maintaining the fertility of the land A well kept manure heap may bo safely taken as one of the surest andl of thrift and success in farm ing neglect of this resource causes losses which though little ed are vast in extent waste of manure Is both so common as to breed indifference and so silent as to escape notice according to recent statistics there are in the united states in round numbers 28 horses mules etc cattle hogs and sheep it these animals were kept in stalls or pens throughout the year and the manure carefully saved the approximate value of the constituents of the manure ira common way of losing money large losses of plant food are sure to occur from these piles of manure produced by each horse or mule would annually be 27 by each head of cattle 20 by each hog ft and by each sheep 2 it is fair to assume that at least one third of the value of the manure Is annually through careless methods of handling and this estimate Is conservative even at this figure we have the tremendous sum of as the annual loss in the united states this condition Is the more unfortunate because practically all of it could be prevented the great importance of farm ma nure Is not appreciated to its full extent by many farmers A great many of those engaged in agricultural pursuits seem to have little realization of the immense loss incurred through A bad way to use good manure above Is shown a practice all too common below Is the same fjeld showing the result of piling manure in the field the manure should be spread when hauled or there will be an uneven growth vf the grain crop due to localized fertility tho waste of this important product they begrudge the time and labor re quiren to remove it from the barn and feeding lot and it Is not buncom mon to see a man purchase commer caal fertilizers and waste the manure produced by his stock barns are often erected on steep side hills or close to the banks of running streams which practice insures a most effective and wasteful loss of the val bable constituents of the manure heap |