Show litter bedding affects maure manure dry sawdust and fine shavings are clean and satisfactory straw Is the bedding material almost universally used on the farm it will absorb from two to three times its weight of liquid if the supply Is scanty it ft will pay to cut the straw used as utter litter for finely cut it wilt will absorb about three times as much liquid as uncut dry sawdust and fine shavings can be recommended as clean aud and satisfactory bedolli be bedding dolln materials their absorptive capacity according vo 10 fineness and dryness Is front from two to four baies that of ordinary straw not injurious to land there Is a more or less general impression among farmers that manure from stables nod and cow barns in which sawdust hns been used as a litter la Is injurious to the land while we would not say that tills this suspicion may not have some foundation wo we have never been able to discover a single instance of such injury and inquiry has been made both in canada and the united states in this matter s says ays the farm and blonic such injury could only occur on very light soils following very heavy applications most satisfactory evidence has been obtained front from many farms upon which sawdust has been used as a bedding material for a number of years and upon which the foil oll Is light and sandy naturally atu rally it Is on heavy soils bolls that tills this class clasa of manure proves most nio st effective one word of caution lorl is necessary horse manure front from st stables ailes using sawdust heats bents very ery rapidly especially it left in the pile and the excessive fer mention that may take place will seriously injure the manure such manure should be mixed with that from the cow barn which can readily be managed when manure carriers are installed and a manure spreader used mixed manure horse and cow may be handled in the same manner as that made with straw the saturation of the sawdust with the liquid excreta promotes the ready decomposition of the litter under favorable conditions of temperature and the best place for this to take place in order that the full manur lal effect may be obtained Is the soil if the manure cannot be spread at once the lacap should bs be kept moist and compact as in the case of manure made with straw hardwood sawdust best the sawdust of hardwoods decompose more rapidly and further Is richer in potash and phosphoric acid than that of pines and conifers generally but no hurin due dua to resistance to decoy decay need ueail be feared from the use of the latter provided that mot it Is not ern employed in larger quantity than Is sufficient to absorb and retain the liquid excreta tests show how rains rob farms of rich soil tens of mill millions lotis of dollars are being literally washed away in the rivers and streams of 0 america through failure of farmers nod and other land owners to properly protect their lands from eiro erosion sion reports tho the farm journal the rich surface soil created by the vegetable matter for many centuries la Is laid bare by plowing and deforestation and within a few years Is swept away by rains leaving only the deml sterile esterlle earth beneath A six year old experiment at the missouri college of agriculture shows that on a slope of 30 feet to too feet soil I 1 left eft without tiny any crops washes so rapidly that only 29 years are required to wear away the seven inches oi 01 surface soil says the magazine with a rotation of corn wheat and clover on en the same land 47 years would be required to move the surface seven inches lu clies while on land left in sod continuously the time required to wash away the same seven inches would be sn lt years systematic terracing of such sloping ground used in conjunction with regular cover crops would make the life of tho the rich top soil almost interminable it Is pointed out |