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Show Proper Care Of Barnyard Manure Told Two methods increase the value of barnyard manure: Uauling it regularly to the field saves nutrients. The soil gains what the manure loses. The second thing is to protect piled manure with a shelter. If you do not have a feeding shed, it will pay to build a shelter. Shed protection can increase the value of a ton of manure by as much as $1.50. The reason for proper care and handling is to save all the liquid possible and reduce re-duce rotting to a minimum until the manure is mixed into in-to the soil. In feeding pens, good bedding bed-ding such as straw, old hay, wood shavings, or corn cobs hold liquids. Their power to hold water differs. Usually, the finer the material the greater the capacity, and the less you need for bedding. It takes about nine pounds of bedding per day for cows, seven to 10 pounds for steers, two pounds for hogs, and one pound for sheep. Reduction in crop yield reported re-ported by some farmers after they use bulky manure is only temporary. It can be offset by adding 15 to 20 pounds of nitrogen ni-trogen per acre. The ultimate result is a benefit not only in total nitrogen and phosphate, but is a generous addition to the organic matter and structure struc-ture of your soil. A ton of fresh manure starts out with about 25 pounds of plant food, That value, your county agent says, is certainly worth saving. |