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Show I DO YOU USE k Mkmm. SPBEA0ER Wo havo never yet heard of a farmer who used a manure-spreader who went back to the old-fashioned way of pitching the manuro out of a wagon with a fork. Tho advantages of the spreader, over tho old way of using a fork, arc so numerous and so plain that no argument can ovorcomo them. In the first place, spreading manure from a wagon with a fork is a dirty and disagroeablo Job. In tho next place It is utterly impos3ib!o to distrlbuto tho manure evenly by this mctlod. , , " By tho uso of a spreader a man can get over a 'great deal more ground, and tho manure- will go 'very much I ' furthor because It is evenly distributed. dis-tributed. If you will observe tho meadows whero you havo distributed manuro by the forkfulls, you will see that the Hold presents a spotted appearance, tho grass being rank In thoso places whore the manuro struck tho ground, but scanty and sparco whero no manuro reached it. By the uso of a wagon a man must stand on tho manuro while distributing distribut-ing It, and the starting and stopping of tho team takes tlmo, and altogether alto-gether tho Job is unsatisfactory. With' a manure-spreader, all that is "f4! igon Box Manure Spreader at Work. necessary is to back tho machine up under tho stable window and empty tho manure into It dally and then when the box is full mount the wagon, drlvo out into tho flold, and, without touching the manuro with a fork. It Is quickly and easily distributed. Spreaders :ro so arranged that by a little prcssuro on a lover tho amount of manuro can bo increased on the baro spots, and shut off whero not so iruch is needed. There arc plenty of two-horse manure-spreaders, but most of them require- threo horses, and sometimes farmers use a double team for the purpose. |