574 llOARt) OF AC.KlCULTtJRfi. 



is Avliy we put nil <iiii' iii.iii'iris on toj) of llio wlicnl when there is n snow, 

 .Miiil thus urt :i tloulih' value from tiu'iii. 



Mr. (Joodriili: Mnc of my sous iu western Iowa used to keep lUO 

 head of catth'. and s oi- ]ii liorses. He luid a manure spreader. He 

 sj'.rcad the iiiaiiui'e on liis tirass Innd. 'I'liei'e is where he liot \\w. most 

 henelit from it. Ih' eould ,iio to his meadow of clover or timothy laud 

 and spread it so finely and evenly it made no trouble at all when he came 

 to make the hay. He <j;ot ix ,c;r(>at deal ))i.iia:t'r growth of grass, and a 

 stronger sod. and when he canu' lo jilow it up he got the benefit of the 

 manure twice. Now, to use it on grass land you only need one team of 

 two horses. Of course they have to pull hard when they start the ma- 

 chine, liut it keeps growing easier all the time. H spreads it finely. If 

 you would set Jill tlie men of this town to spreading the manure l»y hand, 

 they could not spread it ^o finely and nicely as does the manure spreader. 

 And you can drive right along. You do not have to use nearly so much 

 manure. You can put on from five to ten tons an acn;, and you will see 

 a giadual etfect from it. At the discussion at Madison some man was 

 advofating the putting on of a great deal, and l*rof. Babcock was a little 

 shy about telling how much to put on. I put this question: "If you have 

 40 acres of laud ;ind liKt loads of manure, will you put the KH) loads on 

 4I» acres or jiut it on 10 acresV I would juit it on ]u acres. 



Henry Schlosser: Last March my brother borrowed a manure spread- 

 er and used it. Our experieiu-e has lieeu that you can take the manure 

 out in better shape and with less labor using a sjtreader, and we all know 

 the American farmer is looking to do his work as cheap, and with as 

 little labor as ]iossible. and I believe the manure spreader is today what 

 the self-1)inder was 20 years ago iu this part of the country. 



.1. .M. Lee: 'lliis manure spreading business seems to be quite a busi- 

 ness. 1 wish to say that noi'thern Indiana has quite a number of differ- 

 ent kinds of soils. Sometimes we have two or three kinds of soils in one 

 field. Sometimes a part of oiu' field will l)e a good heavy soil, and the rest 

 of it a light sandy soil. You start up your spreader to spread it even all 

 o\("r the field, and you may find that a few acres doesn't need it, Avhile 

 the other does. .Mr. .lohii^oii speaks of ])uttiiig .$40 worth of manure on 

 one aci'e. ^^']lile we liave some land in this county that Avould stand that, 

 thcie is otlier land tliat wmdd not. So we have to spread our manure 

 according to the value of om- k>U. I have no s])i-<'ader. I take the manure 

 and I put it on the jioorest soil. I spread it the best 1 can by hand. Now, 

 1 Jiave soil on wliicli I can raise three tons of hay to the acre. Off about 

 24 acres of ground I take 70 loads of hay. I have places on ray farm that 

 need a great deal more manure than otliers. and we have to sjiread it 

 according to the value of our land. 



