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Show TO SPREAD OR PILE MANURE Answer to Question Is Largely One of Location Much Loss Sustained by Broadcast Scattering. (By ALVIN KKVSl-:!;. Cuturado Experiment Experi-ment Statinn i The question frequently arises, Should manure be spread thinly over the land in winter when it is hauled or should it be dumped in piles to be scattered in the spring? The answer to the question is largely one of location. loca-tion. In a groat deal of Colorado territory ter-ritory the winters are dry, with dry, very windy springs. Where such conditions con-ditions normally prevail scattering manure broadcast on the land during the winter means that the manure will dry out and frequently be blown away by the first heavy spring wind storm. Dropping in piles to be hand Fcat-tered Fcat-tered later saves a part of this loss. Where snow is on the ground and where w inds are not a menace, or where conditions permit disking the scattered manure into the top soil, this loss by blowing Is prevented.. From the standpoint of labor, dropping drop-ping in piles increases the labor. From the standpoint of saving Ihe manure it sometimes saves an appreciable percentage, per-centage, while broadcast scattering would lose all of it. The farmer will have to decide these questions for himself in his own localities, based upon the points above enumerated. |