. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). BARNYARD MANURE ALMOST DOUBLES THE HAY CROP In August, 1916, the Montgomery County Farm Bureau Neios printed the following: In the town of Mohawk, Montgomery County, Stanley Everson carried on a field test to determine the value of stable manure in top-dressing hay fields. Last fall after oat harvest, he top-dressed a portion of a field of new seeding at the rate of eight loads of stable manure to the acre, applied with a manure spreader. The field was mowed on July 19, and on July 20 the farm bureau manage
. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). BARNYARD MANURE ALMOST DOUBLES THE HAY CROP In August, 1916, the Montgomery County Farm Bureau Neios printed the following: In the town of Mohawk, Montgomery County, Stanley Everson carried on a field test to determine the value of stable manure in top-dressing hay fields. Last fall after oat harvest, he top-dressed a portion of a field of new seeding at the rate of eight loads of stable manure to the acre, applied with a manure spreader. The field was mowed on July 19, and on July 20 the farm bureau manager assisted Mr. Everson in taking weights of production on equal areas where manure had been applied and where no manure was applied, to determine the amount of increased yield of hay due to the application of ..4 '"*'• /;- fM^^ "^*;-. Fig. 629. Comparative Result of Field Test on Farm of Stanley Everson, Montgomery County. Where the manure had been applied the yield of hay was 7,184 pounds per acre; while in the same field, with quality of soil and seeding equally as good, the yield without manure was only 3,840 pounds. Eight loads of stable manure per acre gave an increased yield of 87 per cent. Mr. Everson makes a practice of hauling manure direct from the stable to the field, whenever practicable. He believes in getting his stable manure on the ground as quickly as possible, to grow increased crops, to feed more stock, to make more manure, to grow more crops. [gooj. 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 New York (State). Dept. of Agriculture; New York State Agricultural Experiment Station; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. Albany : State of New York, Dept. of Agriculture
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