Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . e essential. This can be most economically effected by theuse of a manure spreader. It does the work better than it can be donewith a fork, and at a great saving of labor. While a manure spreader israther an expensive implement, it will be a paying investment on anyfarm where 60 tons or more of manure are to be applied annually. It isa common practice in most parts of the country to apply manure to agrass sod and plow it under. In many cases manure is also applied tocorn land and l
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . e essential. This can be most economically effected by theuse of a manure spreader. It does the work better than it can be donewith a fork, and at a great saving of labor. While a manure spreader israther an expensive implement, it will be a paying investment on anyfarm where 60 tons or more of manure are to be applied annually. It isa common practice in most parts of the country to apply manure to agrass sod and plow it under. In many cases manure is also applied tocorn land and land that has been in small grain, to be followed by otheror similar crops. While it is the consensus of opinion that the manureapplied in this way will give best results, there is some question as towhether or not more of it should not be applied in the form of a topdressing. Top Dressing vs. Plowing Under.—At the Maryland Experiment * Manure applied to thes~ crops only. t Manure applied to wheat, except in second 8 tons application, which went on potatoes. m ?# | • 11 J Ill i fa •V n ft ». »-? ^. 1 Courtesy of The International Harvester Company, Chicago. (110) BARNYARD, STABLE, GREEN MANURES 111 Station both fresh and rotted manure were applied before and afterplowing. For fresh manure the average of two crops of corn show i < Ia gain of bushels per acre in favor of applying after plowing. For thewheat which followed the corn the gain was two bushels per acre. Whererotted manure was compared in the same way there was practically nodifference in the yield of corn, and about one bushel gain for wheat infavor of applying after plowing. In this experiment the fresh manureunder both conditions and for both crops gave yields considerably abovethat produced by the rotted manure. Another experiment in which the manure was plowed under in thespring as compared with plowing under in the fall gave results with cornand wheat favorable to plowing under in the spring. This
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