Show I 1 POULTRY MANURE IS RICHEST PRODUCED Poultry manure Is the rIchest ot of any produced on the farm says S 'S the New v NewYork York State College of Agriculture at Ithaca yet It receives from the farmer the least attention of any of the animal animal ani- ani mal excrements Average A mixed horse and cattle manure carries ten pounds ot of nitrogen five pounds or of phosphoric acid and twelve pounds of potash a ton Poultry manure contains In comparIson comparison Ison 32 pounds ot of nitrogen as 35 pounds of phosphoric acid and 18 pounds ot of potash where ordinary farm tarm manure I has a fertilizer value ot of n a ton poultry manure Is worth a ton Even when pro produced in small amounts such material says the college Is well worthy ot of careful preservation Poul Poultry try manure should be allowed to dr dry as quickly as possible and be kept dry In this condition It will lose but little or of Its valuable Like ordinary manure It Ser Ser- ments rapIdly when moIst and will lose thereby a large laree percentage or of Its nitrogen worth on the market 25 or 30 cents a pound Since much of at Its potash phosphoric acid and nitrogen Is soluble this manure may suffer greatly from leaching I Caustic lime Ume should never be mixed dIrectly with poultry manure as It tends to liberate nitrogen as ammonia Poultry manure is 18 rIch In nitrogen and low In phosphorus These two condItions may be corrected by diluting ing Ine and reinforcing the manure as follows fol fol- lows To ten pounds or of the manure add six pounds ot of sawdust or some sImilar dry material and four pounds pounds' 1 of acid phosphate This gives a ter- ter terI I carrying 8 per cent of nitrogen i 36 per cent of phosphoric acid and 45 per cent ot of potash or about the slIme same proportion ot of plant food tood elements that are found in a 3 12 mixture but only I one fourth as concentrated i |