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the same poor results. For several years after this wt 

 followed the usual plan of the western farmer, of hauling 

 it out and using any possible method to get rid of it. 



REMARKABLE RESULTS 



But the remarkable results each and every year from 

 the field where the manure was applied in 1882, was too 

 convincing of its value. For ten successive years this 

 entire quarter section was put into wheat. Every year 

 in the early stages of the growth of the wheat, the shape 

 of this five-acre field, which was in one corner of the 

 one hundred and sixty acres, was perceptible both in 

 the color of the wheat and the development of the stools, 

 and almost invariably at harvest time, the grain on this 

 little piece would be from four to eight and ten inches 

 higher than the balance of the field, and yielded invari- 

 ably from fifty to one hundred and fifty per cent more. 



With much study along these lines, and several ex- 

 periments, to find out why such remarkable results were 

 obtained from this field and why we could not succeed 

 in later attempts, we were finally able to solve the prob- 

 lem fully. It is simply a question of mixing the manures 

 into the soil as much as possible, and then firming the 

 under portion of the furrow slice, thoroughly packing 

 manure and soil, followed with careful cultivation, when 

 the sam eresults may practically be attained any year 

 that were secured in the seasons referred to, when we had 

 the unusual amount of rain scattered along at proper 

 periods at just the right time to. produce decomposition. 



The peculiarity of the formation of our soil is such 

 that manures, when properly applied, very materially 

 aid us in carrying our crops through the dry periods and 

 preventing the serious effects of the drouth, for the 

 simple reason that the humus, which is decomposed veg- 



