Show artificial manure made from parm farm grown crops manure equal In quality to atre tire bet beat barnyard fertilizer liser can he be made froni from farm grown materi materials alsand and without ahw lie aid of 11 horses orga e or other farm animals according to a series P of experiments experiment s that have been carried on by the soils soft 3 department of the university of missouri for the past two years ordinary wheat or oats straw strai Is the material and a simple inexpensive e chem chemical leaf combined with will vain rain Is the chief manufacturing agent which changes the straw to manure within two or three months after it Is threshed thres lied the cost of the artif artificial lelal manure varies between 65 and 85 83 cents per ton according to tile the experiments carried out to date tilt the process Is briefly th thlu A sim pie chemical mixture I 1 ix t ure of 45 per cent ammonium eu sulphate inte 40 per cent ingri agricultural limestone and 15 1 per cent per Is mixed with the straw at threshing time iline at the rate of IW pounds to a ton of straw the straw ts Is blown into flat plies piles not over uve or six feet deep in order that it may take up water readily from rains mhd start the rutting rotting brought about by the chemicals through their effect on the bacteria and molds in the straw the length of time necessary to change the straw into manure depends on the depth of the piles of straw anti the amount of rainfall as water Is a one of the very necessary chemical agrenius la in the lie process of rotting |