Show care of manure to make good manure manure we must feed good food manure made from feeding ceding straw alone Is barely worth the handling said james mcfadyean at a meeting ot of ontario farmers A leading authority tells us it Is worth only from 70 to 75 cents to the ton of straw draw tod fed while that irom from a ton 0 f timothy hay bay la is worth 2 50 that from clover hay bay Is worth sa 4 from pea meal irom from bran 6 and from oil meal 10 now we have the maintaining ot of the fertility of our land in view we must feed our hay bay and coarse grain on the farm arm and convert them into money through the medium of 0 butter cheese and meat and leave the manure heap so much the richer if we sell a ton of cheese say bay at ac per pound we would receive and how much of the fertility of the farm have we sold say it takes ten pounds of milk to make a pound of cheese cli eese find and the same authority tells us ua there Is 96 cents worth wor tho of fertility to the soil in a ton of milk and there will be in ten tons and if 1 the whey be fed on the farm its fertility Is worth tho the net amount of plant food sold would be worth now suppose we sold clover hay it would take thirty tons at 6 to bring u find and as clover hay bay after being fed to stock is worth 1 a ton as a fertilizer ti we have sold worth of plant food from our farm and this Is only another proof ot of what observation tells us that the farmers who are carefully and judiciously feeding their hay bay and coarse grain are the men who are maintaining the fertility of their land and making some money also now I 1 think it Is in an acknowledged fact that stable manure spread over the barnyard and exposed to the action of 0 the snow anew rain and sun becomes reduced in weight and value the very essence of plant food Is leached beached out it if it goes where it is least needed As it Is taken from the stables byres and pig pens I 1 it t should be mixed and kept under cover or second best piled up in heaps libau manure Is capital we have to invest that does docs not improve with age nor increase in value with handling and the sooner it Is bearing interest the better tor for ourselves J |