WHAT A PINT OF MANURE DID.
A Wisconsin farmer sends this experience to the “American Agriculturist —“Last year, in hauling yard manure across a field afterwards planted to corn, some of it scattered off in driblets, from a handful to a pint or so in a place. When planting the corn, I found portions of these droppings, and where noticed, drew them into the hills, and with the hoo mixed them a little with the soil a* the seed war dropped. Ia three instances, where a large* handful or about a pint of the manure was thus put in, a stick was driven down to mark the hills. When hoeing, we noticed that in these hills the corn plants had started off more vigorously, were greener, and at the third hoeing they were six to twelve inches higher than the other hills adjoining. Our curiosity being awakened we followed up the observations, and when gathering the crop, each of the three estalks in all the three bilk, had on it two large plump ears, while the surrounding corn did not average one good ear to the stalk.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2580, 14 July 1882, Page 3
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187WHAT A PINT OF MANURE DID. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2580, 14 July 1882, Page 3
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