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Show USE OF FARM MANURE TRIPLES YIELD OF BEETS Land on the Greenville farm of the Utah Experiment Station which has received five tons of farm manure an acre for several years is yielding an average of over three times as much beets as land which has not been manured, according to D. W. Pittman, Assistant Agronomist, who has charge of the farm. In commenting com-menting on thd results of experiments experi-ments conducted at the farm, Mr. Pittman made the following statement: state-ment: "Many of the farmers in Utah have for years been of the opinion that the soils of the state were so fertils that they did not need manuring, man-uring, and it was to secure some definite information on the value of barnyard manure that the Experiment Experi-ment Station began extensive experiments experi-ments with varoius crops and amounts of manure several years ago. "The results every year shown in a very striking way that manure is very beneficial in increasing the total yield. On land which has not been manured for a number of years, ,manure applied at the rate of five tons to the acre, gave an increase of nearly two tons of beets per ton of manure, which at the present price of beets would make it worth over 520 a ton. Where 10 tons were applied ap-plied the yield was still over a. ton oi beets for each ton of manure. "Iti the case of potatoes five tons of manure gave an increase of 64.5 bushels of 12.9 bushels for each ton of manure. Experiments with wheat, oats, and corn also gave very strik inp inf reases in yields. "Where a farmer has more lam, than manure, the greatest returns, oi course, are derived by applying th( manure lightly about five tons to the acre, but if a farmer has a great deal of manure our experiments have shown that it is very profitable to apply as much as forty tons to the acre, which has given, on the Station farm, an increase in yield of over 15 tons an acre, but the increase in tons of beets for each ton of manure to the acre gave an increased yield of 171 bushels, but here as with beets the increase per ton of manure was only 4.3 bushels as compared with 12.9 bushels per ton when only 5 tons were applied." A good farmer will therefore, says Mr. Pittman, be very careful to see that this by-product of the farm is properly cared for and that it is1 all put on land at the best possible time, i When all the farmers realize the j value of their manure, then we will not see it piled around and left to depreciate in value as is very often the case now. No farmer will pile his beets or potatoes out in some corner of the lot to decay but at the same time there are many farmers who waste their manure which if properly applied to the land is in many cases worth as much, if not more, pound for pound as beets, j |
