Show straw valuable manure when partially rotted surplus stra straw which cannot be utilized as roughage cabbe can be used advantageously as aa bedding in stables to absorb the liquid manure according to P F B smith associate professor of agronomy colorado agricultural college catlege the moisture will old aid in the decomposition of the straw converting it into a valuable farm by prod urt practically all of the phosphorous taken from the soil not by the grains Is contained in the straw but direct application of straw to the he land Is usually detrimental to succeeding cropf chopa this harmful effect Is brought about by various agencies chief of which la in the drying out of the sol soil and consequent firing of crops fr pert ments at the iowa agricultural experiment peri ment station have shown that lint partially decomposed straw mixed with some nitrogenous substance tance does not retard plant growth the liquid portion of manure serves as a cheap source of nitrogen and the resultant decomposition converts the straw into a manure less likely to dry out the SOL cl |