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at least we are willing to admit that there are. 

 Still we prefer a direct application to the field. 



When you consider the labor necessary for extra 

 hauling and mixing, it is considerable after all. 

 How much better it is to use that labor in the woods, 

 getting and hauling other quantities of leaves and 

 pine straw for the various pens, stalls and yards at 

 the barn. 



We prefer to haul manure direct to the field and 

 have it mixed in the soil, so its decay can take 

 place there, because as a result of chemical action 

 it will rot the soil as it rots itself. 



SAVE THE MANURE 



The American farmer has not yet become skilled 

 in saving manure. He is rather wasteful in most 

 things and especially so with farm manure. 

 Liquid from the stable and yards runs away, be- 

 cause of too little bedding material, is leached 

 away in the rain, and is lost never to be recovered. 

 Again, stables are cleaned, manure is dumped out 

 of window or door, exposed to sun and rain, and 

 gradually burned up or washed into the stream. 



Do you believe this ? Your own observation 

 will be proof enough. 



The remedy lies in but one direction : Save home- 

 made manures and make more the following year. 

 If you have no covered barnyard or other covered 

 place to keep it, haul direct to the fields. 



This offers many advantages: 



It enables you to keep the stables clean. 



You can do the hauling in the winter when men 

 and teams have little else to do. 



The soil itself is benefited by the decay of 

 manures and is inclined to make active its in- 

 soluble plant food. 



