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some effort to do so. Next to the waste of fertility, which occurs be- 

 fore getting manure to the field, is that of applying it unevenly and over 

 too small an area. Moderate applications, well spread and well incor- 

 porated with the soil, are far better than heavy dressings applied at 



Fip. 3.— Showing the grains of a fine clny loam soil grouped together in the form 

 of granules equal in size to the average grain in a coarse sandy soil. The dotted circles 

 represent single solid sandy soil grains, tlie solid blaclc represents the films of water 

 smuounding the soil grains and soil granules and filling the spaces between the grains 

 making up the granules of the clay loam soil. 



long intervals. The danger is, wlaie heavy dressings are applied, that 

 the fermentation will be carried too far and a very large part of the 

 nitrogen be lost in the form of the free gas. Maximum amounts of 

 stable manure are seldom made on any farm. All the roughage and 



