Show agronomist PRESENTS statistics ON USES OF BARNYARD MANURE utah winters tanners may replace commercial rem alq of cf soil ball with balard manure says D W pittman Pl professor of solis soils at utah state agricultural college professor pittman citing men ments on cm the agan experimental larm says the yield ot of alfalfa which responds to phosphorous but not to nitrogen has ben increased irom from to tons per aire acre by manure the yield ot of sugar suga r beets which responds more to phosphorus than to has been increased I 1 from to sto 2311 2314 tons per acre the application appl cation ot of ten tons tans cf manure per acre has increased the average yield ot of sugar beets 1281 tons per acre an experiment shows in order to test the effect ot of cons depablo yaria variation tion in rate of application an aa experiment was conducted with no magiure mani mali ure uTe five tons ten to as 15 ions 30 tons tans and 40 ton pe per r acre annually these quantities were applied several years befaro beets were planted manure applied at the rate of ten tons lons per a acre ere gave an increase in yie yield id of slightly more than one ton ot of beets per ton tell ot of manure the value ot of manure on potato prodie ng dodl was determined by a similar In Increase creasa i in yield due to application ot of ten tons per acre was bucheli bu sheli where manure was applied at the rate at af five tons per par acre the yield was increased toy by 13 bushels for or each ton gf manure applied ld manure appl applied ed to corn land has been given a 1 value of 0 2 per ton and ana the maturity ot of corn has been speeded up an kern item that Is important import apt in utah chene the growing season for corn is so short an increase ot of two bushels bus helff ol of wheat tor for each ton of manure was secured when five tons of manure pea a acre was applied however Ho experiments show that the return cpr ton of manure applied on oil wheat or oat land ian is not so great as on soils soila where potatoes and sugar beets are grown by supplying humus manerl jm ain proves physical condition and wat er homling capacity of soil as well wel I 1 as ael alfon and temperature iela ela i ilona and it has a favorable et ef feet on bac VarJa word work over the stock of plant nutrients and make them available for dimmed late laito wee use protessor prote P points out it is estma tid that one billion tons tone ot of manure the annual product ot of livestock on AMET american ican barms ig 19 capable of 0 producing three billion baillo dollars worth of ta in 1 jr eased crops |