Show value of manure one ton of good quality manure Is equal al in fertilizing value to pounds of 4 10 4 1 fertilizer at lea least st this Is indicated by tests conducted by the arkansas college of agriculture in cooperation with farmers in ever every y section of that state these tests showed that ten tons of manure gave a little higher yield of corn und and a little lower yield of cotton than COO pounds of 4 10 4 fertilizer in addition the residual effects on the following crops were greater with the manure this applies to manure that has not been damaged severely by heating beating or leaching the trials also showed that a better balanced fertilizer Js obtained by adding 50 50 to 75 pounds of to each ton of manure manure Is t poorer in phosphate than in nitrogen and potash Il hoards dairyman |