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Show Keeping Barnyard Free of Fertilizing Manure One of the best dairy farmers In eastern Ontario Is able to make the unusual claim that, in the past eight years, there has never been a single load of manure accumulate in his barnyard. barn-yard. He cleans his stables each morning and the litter carrier Is dumped directly on the sleds or wagon. a-, the case may be, and hauled to the field. This man has a sandy farm and it is not often 'bat he cannot drive anywhere to spread manure. Farmers with clay land might find It more difficult diffi-cult to follow this plan, but all must admit that, a yard full of manure Is not a thing of beauty and the clean yard of our eastern Ontario friend looks decidedly more sanitary as- an exercising place for a dairy herd, says a writer in the Montreal Herald. The Ohio experiment station offers an additional ad-ditional argument for keeping the barnyard clear of manure. Over a period of SO years, which should be long enough to be conclusive, it has been found that manure which was spread on the field as produced. Increased In-creased the average yield of corn per acre by three-fourths bushels, of wheat three-fourths bushels, and of clover hay 400 pounds more than did manure which was left in the pile In the barnyard and spread in the spring. |