STABLE AND BARNYARD MANURE 87 



nances in order to get stable litter removed from the alleys 

 of this town before it became a nuisance to public health. 



When it comes to appreciating the value of stable manure, 

 the eastern farmer has shown himself more aggressive than 

 the Corn Belt farmer. In New England manure has had a 

 market value for several generations past. The fact that the 

 eastern farmer finds it necessary to manure his land while 

 some of the western farms are fertile enough to grow a crop 

 without manure is no excuse for the Corn Belt farmer. While 

 it is still possible for us to grow a crop without first apply- 

 ing manures or fertilizers it is also true that a ton of manure 

 applied to the black prairie land of Illinois will increase the 

 yield of corn, wheat and oats more bushels than would be 

 the case if the manure were applied to thin, hilly land. With 

 farm crops bringing the present good prices we can surely 

 afford to be as careful in saving and as painstaking in apply- 

 ing manures as can our eastern brothers. The New England 

 farmer has been driven by necessity to increase the fertility 

 of his soil. In fact, much of the secret of every eastern 

 farmer's success is to save all the manure and return it to 

 the soil. Many of us in the West are still living off the fat 

 of the land and some of us will continue to mine our soils 

 until the fertility is completely exhausted. 



How SHOULD MANURE BE APPLIED? 



Every Corn Belt farmer who is farming as much as one 

 hundred and sixty acres can afford to own a manure spreader. 

 The spreader distributes the manure more evenly and over 

 a larger area than is possible when applied by hand. We 

 believe that two tons applied with a spreader will go as far 

 as three tons applied in any other manner. If the farm 

 produces only one hundred tons of stable manure in a year 

 and it is made to go as far as one hundred and fifty tons 

 applied by hand, there has been a saving of fifty tons of 



