BARNYARD WASTE.
The farmer who lots all the liquids of his barnyard run to waste is a spendthrift, however “close-fisted” he may be with money. A practical farmer said recently : “On my farm on the Hudson River I have cisterns under the barn and the stable, in which this liquid is collected. These cisterns are all connected, and one being built on a lower grade they all empty into this one. When it rains I put a force pump into the cistern and fill two water carts, such as are used in watering our streets, and scatter this liquid over our meadows; in forty-eight hours afterward a change is perceived in the color of the grass.” Another farmer, who has a similar arrangement in his barnyard, says he saves 100 loads every year, and thinks the liquid worth as many loads of solid manure.— Prairie Farmer,
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Patea Mail, 13 March 1882, Page 3
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146BARNYARD WASTE. Patea Mail, 13 March 1882, Page 3
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