No. 5. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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and in plant food, as well as the financial loss. The first table gives 

 the losses in horse manure placed in a pile and the second is of cow 

 manure. They are as follows: 



TABLE NO. 1 





Gross welgbt, . 



Nitrogen 



Pliosphc-rlc acid, 



Potash 



Value per ton, . 



67 

 60 



47 

 76 

 62 



TABLE NO. 2 



While on a trip last summer, I visited a farm where the farm house 

 was modern; it is well heated, the owner has his own gas plant, hot 

 and cold water, and, in fact, all modern conveniences. The barn 

 and outbuildings v\'ere in splendid condition, in fact, one would have 

 judged tlie owner to have been an up-to-date, prosperous farmer. A 

 further examination developed the fact that he had an old fashioned 

 barnyard in which the manure vras thrown, when removed from the 

 barn, seeping between the stone wall between it and the highway, 

 and ultimately finding its way into and polluting the creek was 

 found a stream of rich brown liquid, the drainage of his barnyard. 

 Based upon the following prices: Nitrogen at 18 cents, phosphoric 

 acid 5 cents and potash at 5 cents, that liquid or drainage from this 

 manure heap was worth .^10.40 per ton. That man was not only 

 losing money, but was, unthinkingly, perhaps, seriously polluting a 

 stream of good water. Each ton of drainage from a manure heap, it 

 has been estimated, contains thirty (30) pounds of nitrogen, two (2) 

 pounds of phosphoric acid and ninety-eight (98) pounds of potash. 



In striking contrast were the conditions found on the farm of my 

 friend and colleague, Mr. William H. Stout, on his "Fairview Farm." 

 His manure pit is a wagon with a tight box, a concrete gutter at the 

 rear of the stalls conveys the liquid excrement to a tank. Every day 

 or two, the manure, after the liquid has been poured over it, is hauled 

 out to and deposited where needed on the fields, and this is done the 



