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Professor Sheltoii from the results of somewhat similar experi- 

 ments carried on at the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station 

 concludes as follows : 



" The moral which the experiment plainly emphasizes is, that 

 farm j'ard manures must • be hauled to the field in the spring ; 

 otherwise the loss of manure is sure to be very great, the waste in 

 the course of six months amounting to fully one half the gross 

 maiuu'e and nearly forty per cent of the nitrogen thatitcontained." 



To show that a large number of the farmers in the state are un- 

 informed in this matter, or at least not sufficiently alive to its 

 importance to take proper care of their minure, we have had 

 engravings made of photographs of two actual " farm steadings" 

 as they were found to exist, earl}' last spring. Attention is par- 

 ticularly directed to the watery, miry condition of the yards and 

 to the heaps of manure under the eaves. 



These are not isolated cases, but are fairly representative of a 

 large niunber of similar views that were taken in one da}' in the 

 course of a not very extended walk in a single locality, and that a 

 dairy district. From what we have .seen from car windows in our 

 journeys through the state, much the same condition of things 

 prevails generally. 



I. P. ROBERTS. 

 HENRY H. WING. 



