Show PROFIT FROM MANURE GREAT ANNUAL LOSS IS 18 CAUSED BY CARELESS management well kept heap Is surest sign of thrift and nd success in farming importance of fertilizer Is not fully appreciated every crop removed from tho the soil takes from it which havo been used in building up ud tho the plants tissue soil with po ro fertility added and which annually bears boars a crop must in time become boco irn exhausted of its store of valuable alu able plant food and unfit to boar bear further profitable blo crops substances which are edudd to tho the eoll soil i 1 L A manure spreader Is very valuable on any farm in order to replace tho the ingredients which bavo been boon removed by pro previous crops arc are called mu nurea roa the oldest and most common form of manure Is in the farm manure of pit fertilizers this Is tho the moat most popular early earl roman writers called attention to tho the fact that the addition of tho the excreta of farm animals to the eoll soil resulted ed in increased production and from that timo time to tho present tho the majority of 1 A J C 71 ir I 1 J A t A common way of losing money large losses of plant food are sure to occur from these piles of manure farmers have placed their reliance on this class of manures for maintaining the ibe fertility of the land A well kept manure heap may be safely taken as one of the surest indications of thrift and success in farming neglect of this resource causes losses which though little appreciated are vast in extent waste of manure Is both so common as to breed indifference and so silent as to escape notice according to recent statistics there are in the united states in round numbers horses mules etc cattle boas bois and sheep if there animals were kept in stalls ur yens lions throughout mair T at at ax maj A C A A bid bd way to use good manure above Is shown a practice all too common below Is the sams field showing the result of piling manure in the field the manure should be spread when hauled or there will be an uneven growth of the grain crop due to localized fertility the tho year and the manure carefully saved the approximate value of the fertilizing constituents of the manure produced by each horse or mule would annually be 27 by each head of cattle 20 by each bog hog 4 and by each sheep 2 it ie to fair to asguine that at least ono one third of tho the tulu of tho the manuro manure ts Is annually lost through careless loso methods of handling and tl 11 1 estimate mato ie Is conservative even at this figure wo we have tho the tremendous au BUS of 0 an tho the annual 1008 ic IL tho the united states this condition la Is tho the inore un unfortunate fortunato bec aa radically all of it could bo be prevented tho the groat importance of farm manure manuro ie Is not to its full extent by many barmore far more A groat great many of those engaged in ss purt seem to have lattio of 0 tho tile lose through tho tile basto aeto of thie this important pro product thoy they begrudge tho the timo time and labor required to remove it from tho the barn and feeding lot and it la in not buncom mon inon to see a man purchase commercial fertilizers and waste tho the manuro manure produced by his tile stock barns aro are often erected on steep bleep eldo side hills or men cloeo close to tho the banks of running N streams et reame which practice insures a moat effective and wasteful loas loss of tho the val ua baulo ble constituents of tho the manuro manure heap |