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FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



after being exposed for five months the plant food 

 value was only $2.03 scarcely one-third its original 

 value. 



Why Full Value of Fertility of Feeds Is Not 

 Secured to Lands. Many farmers fail to get results 

 in the field from the use of manure, considered from 



How FARM MANURE Is WASTED 



Handled in this manner, the nitrogen and soluble fertilizing materials 

 leach out and waste away. This explains why much farm manure is of 

 little value when placed on the land. 



the standpoint of actual fertilizing value, not be- 

 cause the plant food is not in the manure made 

 from the feed given the animals, but because of neglect 

 after the manure has been made. Farmers often 

 fail also to get a full response from the use of feeds, 

 just as they fail to get maximum returns from the 

 manure made from the feeds. 



