| Show two t 0 heaps 0 o anure the following froni from the pen 0 non hon F H holbrook Is ls taken from the new england farmer how illow true is the remark of mr C coke okel ate late earl of leicester that the value of farmyard magiure manure is in proportion to what it is made of it if cattle eat straw alone the dung is straw alone the cattle are straw the farm is straw and tie tle the farmer is ig straw they are all straw together not long ago I 1 had four cows tome to the stable in the tail fall hallwhich which I 1 thought in ight yield a food supply of milk through the winter it if well fed I 1 also had four other animals cows and cifers hei hel helfers ferb fers which were not expected 7 lo 10 give much milk till the follow following ln grass season the first four were tied in the stable side beside by side and rece rete received ived each tn in addition to bohay hay hax and stalks four quarts ot small pot potatoes atoe each morning and two quarts of corn and oatmeal each evening even int through the winter inter As we expected they gave a good iness mess of milk and came out well in the spring the of those four cows was thrown out of bf a stable window under the cattle cattler shed abed by itself theother the other four animals were tied in the same stable next to the first four and received only hay and corn dorn orn fodder their manure wast wag thrown brown out by itself at the next stable window and under the same blied plied to BP that the f two wo heaps lay side by side the heap that was made by the four cows cowa that were dally daliy dally daily messed with potatoes and abd meal kept hot arid smoking a all winter and wab was wholly y free from frost frosts the heap made by the othet atil aril animals mals mais that had hild only hay bay and stalks showed no signs of oe fermentation ferm i and was somewhat frozen observing 7 this s difference from time to time curio curlo curiosity sity prompted me in the spring to apply thos those 8 two heaps i separately butin but in equal quantities side b by side on a piece of corn ground the hupez arity of the corn crop where chere he the manure from the messed cattle was a liea lied over oven that where the other otheir heap was spread was quite apparent and striking and called my attention mabre particularly than it was wag ever be fare directed to the importance of fie feedon dirik out our best or richest products if we would have hase the best beat kind of manure fo for 0 our ur lands and large crops from them thera |
