Show save the manure approximately 10 tons of manure are produced annually for each 1000 pounds of live weight of stock kept on the farm this manure contains plant food elements to make it worth around a ton at commercial fertilizer prices besides beside S it I 1 provides organic matter for the soil something essential to crop production of course this value is dependent upon the manner in which the manure is conserved and applied more than a third of the nitrogen and two thirds of the potassium are in the liquid portion of the manure this drains away unless sufficient bedding is used to absorb it also there is a loss where the manure is left piled up subject to the weather |