POULTEY MANURE
VALUABLE PLANT FOOD
Poultry manure is rich in plant food and if properly dried and stored is a great deal more valuable than ordinary farmyard manure. It should always be methodically saved by the small poultrykeeper as well as by those who have large numbers of fowls. A little concentrated manure for special uses is a very handy thing to have about a garden to push along any particular crop or plant. Poultry manure should never be used fresh owing to its burning tendency, and its value is enhanced when it is allowed to dry in the air. Once dry it is best stored ia a cask or box, mixing in a little soot and dry soil as the receptacle fills up, and if not wanted for immediate use a covering of dry soil should be placed on. top and the mixture kept dry. An excellent liquid' manure can be made by mixing fowl manure with an equal quantity of soot, placing them in a piece of scrim and soaking for a few days in a tub or barrel of water. Use at the colour of weak tea and apply after rain or when the soil is mojst after watering.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 21
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202POULTEY MANURE Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 21
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