Show profitable USE OF MANURE result of tet test carried on at missouri url experiment station covering of 29 25 year years hy ull C A LB clain university of III ourt college Col leire of agriculture A larger net not return per of ma nure nura was secured from applications to timothy meadow land than to corn oaf oats or wheat in rotation in a 25 year teat test at the misso irl experiment sta ta tion la in experiments conducted on fields in nearly every section of tho tate state the use of from six ix to eight ton tons of barnyard manure per acre once dur lg tog each fourbear four year rotation aavo an null 1 returns of from 10 to 4 10 each year for each ton applied even heavier applications than the supply on the average faria would per mit have provia financially profitable ablo from a field gold which roc elved feren ton tons per acre each year 3 i 4 toni tons of 0 hay wore were cut july 1 1015 and a second crop of nt 2 8 tone tons on septem her ber 1 16 of the name year or a total ol 01 6 2 tone tons ier i er acre oa as compared with 19 anno one on an adjoining field cropped cro but unfertilized ou on both fields the cropping bad had continued a quarter of a century without charge of cond lUona tib abundant rainfall this year made possible poa elble yields that would not be obtained during years when lack of moisture mo liture limited the use the land could make of uch such abundant plant food but them teta tests how show that eton in ordinary yeara years the manure can well be applied tu to the timothy meadow as a well aa as to the corn as has ha generally been belter sd |