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400 (12) THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER Farm Manures: How to Save and Use Them Article No. Hon 'Farm facts Eveiy Boy Should Kcotv" . it it l! r By B. L Moss C a s In F.O;B. La Porte Complete With Plows And here's what you geta tractor especially designed for the small farm tractor and plows combined in one machine control of entire out- E fit from operator's seat an all purpose machine, as good for belt work as on the draw-bar. The Rumely will plow your truck patch as well as your hundred acre field. It prepares your ground, pulls your binder, does your hauling and belt work. Our catalog explains the ease of control, the steel gears all encased and running in oil, roller bearings through out, heavy-duty four cylinder engine and rigid frame construction. Same design in three-plow tractor, "12-24," $975.00 f.o.b. La Porte. Address nearest branch for catalog. Advance-Rumely Thresher Co- La Porte (incorporated) Indiana New Orleans. La. Nashville, Tenn. Dallas, Tex. ' Tntt ttt rr ra tt vt rr vyt iwvi II 1UIUII All Purpose Tractor rjarja IN 1910, according to the United Stable manure has still another val States Census Bureau, .there were ue in that it promotes .bacterial or in-the-cotton-states6,219,426-head germiifeMn;thesoilrhe'germTlh of horses and mules and 16,678,848 convert insoluble nitrogen compounds head of cattle. This was an increase into soluble nitrate nitrogen, for in over 1900 of 729,336 head of horses and stance, cannot thrive in a soil with mules, or about 10 per centrancNrde- out humus; likewise a poor cotton crease of 2,726,735 head of cattle, or field, almost destitute of humus, fur about 10 per cent. Assuming that nishes a poor home for the bacteria since 1910 the rates of increase and that live on the roots of clovers, al decrease have been the same, we now falfa, and other legumes. . have in the cotton states 6,592,590 i The best authorities agree that in AS WE have already indicated, it is one year a horse or cow weighing a practical impossibility to' saw 1000 pounds will produce, in solid and .all of the plant food constituents of liquid form, manure containing plant our farm manures'; but to ahv"'tfn PLANT FOOD CONSTITUENTS CONTAIN- at all observant it is very evident that we can save and use on our fields q ed in manure produced in one vastly great deal more than U nnw YEAR BY HORSES AND CATTLE FOR .uA 1 -T:Jt. I"' : 9 EACH 1,000 POUNDS LIVE WEIGHT TfiF Potesh fijfifc Ammal Lbs. Lbs Lbs- Horse 128 43 103 132.90 Cow.. J56 38 127 39.45 the caser Right here Southern farm- rs have a tremendous opportunity in 1 Xf in n"1i 5 6 m I niira n A .7i,!i. I l . j, 'IX ' -ttm r a. xosv 3 Do You" Pay Taxes On Idle Acres ? There are dollars under the stumps crop money that, belongs to you. Get it out. Remove the stumps yourself. Blow them into easily handled pieces with Farm Powder. . You can do it quickly, easily and thoroughly in the most economical way. No experi ence or skill is needed if you use Mas Farm Powdet Tte Origsgl Farm Poster Just, punch a hole, load It, lifht a fuse and the work is done! Your stump field is in stantly transformed into fer tile, virgin land. The profits from the first crop will more than pay the cost of clearing. wm Dig ditches, make tree holes, shatter boulders and blast tht subsoil with Atlas Farm Pow dermade especially for farm work. It does the work better and costs less than laor. Ask the Atlas dealer for prices. Get "Better Farming" Book FREE "Better Farming," fully illustrated, shows how Atlas Farm Powder may be used to increase the fertility of the soil, improve orchards, and save money in many kinds of work. Mail the coupon. ATLAS POWDER COMPANY . Gnral Off ic, Wilmington, Del. SatefeJOfficei: Birmineham, Boston, Houghton, Joplin, Kansas City, Kooxville, Mew Orleans, New York, r&iUtfeip&ia, 91. Uoi 51 life 4ii their wealth. In fact the degree to which we take advantage of this op portunity and use it to the enrich- In these figures nitrogen is figured ment of our soils and ourselves must at 20 cents a pound and phosphoric in large degree determine our suc- acid and potash at 5 cents a pound, cess or failure as farmers. Present prices are considerably high- In the first place, for the :sake of er, but the above about represent the the manure saved, if for no other rea- average under normal conditions. son, the open range should be abol- With this knowledge of the value, ished and enclosed pastures substit- of the manure produced for each 1000 uted. In this way the manure from pound animal or for each 1,000 pounds the cattle that run at large would be of live weight, we are in position to saved to the owner's land. Moreover, calculate the total yearly value of the instead of "lying out", at night, there horse and cow manure produced in would be a great deal more certainty the South. It is impossible, of course, that every animal would be under a for us to say exactly what is the aver- dry shed that would protect both it age weight per head of these animals, and the manure from the weather, but we believe that 750 pounds per Adequate enclosed pastures provid- animal is a conservative estimate. On ed, suitable sheds for every single an- this basis, the total plant food value imal every night are the next needs, of the manure from the horses and For the horses and mules and milk mules and cattle in the South is as cows, a separate stall for each is gen- follows: erally best; but for the dryeattle an TOTAL PLANT FOOD CONSTITUENTS AND TOTAL VALUE IN MANURE PRODUCED BY HORSES AND MULES AND CATTLE IN THE COTTON STATES Nitrogen Phosphoric Acid Potash Horses Pounds Value Pounds Value Pounds Value Total vdue and ; I Mules... 843,851,520 $168,670,304 283,581,370 114,179,068.50 679,036,770 $ 34,951.828.50 $217,801 211 Cattle ... 2,445,786,7201 489,167,344 595,768,560 29,788,428.00 1,991,131,840-, 99,556,592.00 618,502,364 Totals 3,289,638,240; 675,827,648 879,349,930 43,967,496.50 2,670,168,610; 134,508,430.50 836,303,575 ATLAS'POWDER CO., Wilmington, Del. Send me your 74-page book "Better Farming." I am interested in the use of explosives for the. purpose before which. I mark X.' PF5 B Stump Blasting" Boulder Blasting' &UDSOM Blasting BTfee Planting Ditch Digging Uuarrying-Mining . Name. Address When writing to advertisers gay, "I saw your advertisement in The Progressive Tanner." Here is a total value in manure of 836 millions of dollars a year enough to build two Panama Canals, with a goodly amount to spare. It is quite true that under average farm condi tions it is practically imposible .to save the total amount of manure made and put it on the land. Espe-' dally is this true where livestock, as is the case in many parts of the South, are allowed to run on the open, range. Where given such free range, the droppings, to all ' practical pur poses, may be considered wholly lost to the owner of the animals'. It is probably .not an; exaggeration to say that, from one cause of another, Southern farmers on an average do not recover and use to increase their crops and decrease fertilizer bills more than one-fourth of the total amount of manure produced. In oth er words, we save maybe 2,00 million dollars worth and let 600 million dol lars worth go to waste. At the same time we annually buy from 75 to 100 million dollars worth of commercial fertilizers. In addition to its plant food .value, manure, by reason'of its large amount of organic matter, has a great value 'as a source of humus. This organic matter, in decomposing, serves to un lock and make available to crops the, insoluble plant foods already in the soil. For instance, some of our clay soils contain many thousands of pounds of potash per acre, but still ap plications 'of commercial potash pay. Under such conditions organic matter or humus ' is needed, and stable ma nure i an excellent means of supply ing it. inexpensive shed, open on one or two or even three sides, will, in our cli mate, be quite sufficient. When such shelters are provided, care should be taken to see that all animals are kept under them. Manure dropped and left in an open, uncovered lot, exposed to the rains and leaching, very soon loses the best of its plant food con stituents. Still, nearly everywhere in the South, we see this very thing go ing on on farm after farm. No won der our soils are poor ! No wonde wc havp n birr rnmmprrinl fprrilirpr 'bill! - Good drainage is an essential that no barnyard should be without. For the location a slight eminence should, if possible, be chosen; then care must be taken to see that no outside waters are allowed to enter the lot and that what falls on it is carried away before it has a chance to help convert the lot into a sea of filthy mud. Of course extreme care must be exercised to see that no water at all is allowed to find . its way into the sheds, stalls or sta bles themselves. Since in the liquid manure there is a very considerable proportion (about one-half) of the total plant -fodcHalue of the manure, it is plain thatin or der .to save the greatest possible amount of the total plant fodd value, some provision must be made for sav ing the liquid portion. Perhaps the surest way to do this is to provide water-tight floors of concrete or wood, with gutters for conveying the liquid portions of the manure to a re ceptacle, whence it may be carried di rect to the fields. Such floors are a part of many modern-dairy barns. However, under average Southern
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