. Agriculture for the Kansas common schools. Agriculture. 176 AGRICULTURE. Burnyard manure that has accumulated for years. It has lost much of its plant food. It should have been spread on the fields as fast as it was made. commercial fertilizer. The average farmer who is feeding live stock on his farm does not carefully save and use the manure. It has been estimated that there is pro- duced annu- ally in the United States manure c o n - taining plant food valued at more than two billion dollars, and that one- third, or more than seven hundred million dollars' worth, of this plant food is lost
. Agriculture for the Kansas common schools. Agriculture. 176 AGRICULTURE. Burnyard manure that has accumulated for years. It has lost much of its plant food. It should have been spread on the fields as fast as it was made. commercial fertilizer. The average farmer who is feeding live stock on his farm does not carefully save and use the manure. It has been estimated that there is pro- duced annu- ally in the United States manure c o n - taining plant food valued at more than two billion dollars, and that one- third, or more than seven hundred million dollars' worth, of this plant food is lost by careless handling. Loss of plant food from manure may occur in several ways. The Loss of Manure Value. Manure is made up of both solid and liquid matter. The latter is the more valuable because it contains more plant food, and also because the plant food which it contains is soluble in water and readily available for the use of plants. If care is not used in handling the manure, this valuable liquid material will flow away and be lost. This loss may be prevented by using sufficient bedding to absorb all the liquid portion of the manure. Manure that is left in the feed lot over summer, or that is piled in the open and left exposed to the weather, loses large amounts of plant food. Rain carries away in solution enormous quantities. This loss may be largely overcome by feeding the cattle on the cultivated land in the winter when the ground is dry, by cleaning out the feed yards early in the spring, and by piling manure. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Call, Leland Everett, 1881- [from old catalog] comp; Kent, Harry Llewellyn, [from old catalog] joint comp. Topeka, The State of Kansas state printing plant
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