MANURES AND FERTILIZERS 



sarily to sun and wind. Never spread manure 

 one day to be ploughed in the next. 



It may not be amiss to mention, lest its impor- 

 tance should be overlooked or underestimated, the 

 great advantage of taking care, in spreading the 

 manure, to do it evenly, and so that the heaps 

 shall not be made to overlap. One heap is then 

 made to join up to another, and the whole ground 

 fares alike as regards the supply of manure. This 

 seems obvious enough, and practical works on 

 farming already have sought to enforce this view. 

 But, as we read in one recently published, "there is 

 more in this point than is generally supposed by 

 farmers, who, in many cases, are careless and 

 wasteful in this respect, giving too much in some 

 places and too little in others. The consequence is 

 uneven growth over the different parts of the field; 

 perhaps rank in some places, and in others a half- 

 starved crop." 



The same writer suggests another important 

 point in spreading, which is to break up the lumps 

 and scatter the manure about in a fine state; unless 

 this is done the field cannot be evenly fertilized. 

 There is work about this, and some hired men 

 will neglect and avoid it if they are permitted, but 



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