MANURES. 6H 



while hipine are valuable oq all except limestone soils, turiiips 

 are good on all soils, either plowed under or fed to sheep on the 

 » land, Spurry is valuable on sandy soils, as it grows fast, and 

 two or three crops can be secured in a season. 



There are many plants which can be used for this purpose, 

 both annual and perennial, the latter having the advantage of 

 saving the seed after the first season. In plowing under crops 

 OQ the soil where they are grown, a chain is attached to the end 

 of the whiflfletree of the off horse, or if oxen are used, to a stick 

 bolted into the plow beam for the purpose, and the other end 

 hitched to the beam near the standard ; this will draw the 

 plants into the furrow to be covered up by the furrow slice. 



We take the following from the transactions of the New 

 York State Agricultural Society on Husbanding Manures : 



" Where sufficient has been reserved for arable lands, barn- 

 yard manure may be spread upon pastures and meadows under 

 the following restrictions. If spread early in the spring on 

 pastures for immediate use, it should not be the droppings of 

 that species of animals intended to be placed in the pastures. 

 Coarse manures should never be spread upon meadows in the 

 spring. It may be evenly spread on meadows any time after 

 harvest, and bushed in. When spread the atmosphere should 

 indicate the absence of high winds, the approach of rain, or 

 damp weather. On rapidly sloping lands, a heavy top dressing 

 should be applied near the summit. No manure should be ap- 

 plied to the surface of bill-sides in winter, when the ground id 

 frozen, as it will be likely to be washed away." 



" On farms whose principal staple is grain, where the straw 

 is in excess in the barnyard, it should be spread profusely, 

 trodden down by the cattle, mixed with their droppings, kept 

 moist with liquid manure from the manure tank, and thus 

 thoroughly decomposed before it is applied to the soil, else the 



