Saving and Spreading Manure.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 160, 31 May 1909, Page 4

Saving and Spreading Manure.

1 have been a good deal interested in what your correspondents say about saving and spreading barn-yard manure. I have for several years found it the most saving of fertility, and the easiest to haul out the manure as fast as it accumulates, or at least two or three times each week. Then it leaches into the ground and saves all. The manure spreader is one of the best things on the farm to save and handle the manure. The only time I would not advise the daily spreading of maunrc is when the snows of winter lie on the ground. It would of necessity br left in lumps, and when the snows are melting in the spring there might be quite a loss from washing. This, I think, would not hold true if spread upon the snows of early winter. I should, therefore, advise that in sections of the country where the snows do not fall dceply.and whenever the work can be made consistent wiln the seasonable work of the farm, the manure be hauled directly to the fields as fast as made, even though the land is quite rolling, provided the spreading is done thoroughly, either by the use of the spreader or the brush harrow. I presume it is not necessary to say to our readers that the pernicious habit of dumping manure in small heaps from a cart, these heaps to be thrown about with a fork at some future time, is conductive to much loss. [deal manuring consists in placing a particle of manure in contact with every particle of the soil, and this cannot be accomplished except by most painstaking efforts,preading directly from the cart, or by the use of that almost indispensable farm implement, the manure spreader.—B. W. McK., in the "Indianna Farmer."