30 Soiling. 



double its value. Nothing has gone off. We have, 

 on the other hand, created or made that much 

 money. 



The amount spent in this State (New York) yearly 

 for commercial fertilizers is over $6,000,000, the in- 

 terest on which would pay for the extra labor of 

 soiling every cow in the State, or building a liquid 

 manure cistern on every farm, the saving of which 

 would perhaps equal the amount paid for commer- 

 cial fertilizers. To the farmer who would enrich his 

 farm in a sure and economical way, and to the farmer 

 who puts his faith in barnyard manure and would 

 attain the greatest possible amount at the least pos- 

 sible cost, the soiling system, as we shall presently 

 show, affords just those conditions and advantages. 



OIL CAKE AND COTTON-SEED MEAL. 



Before closing this chapter on manures, I wish to 

 call the reader's attention to a by-product, that in 

 this country at least is in no way appreciated. I refer 

 to oil cake. 



You will notice by the foregoing tables that oil 

 cake is worth $37.24 as a food, and $20.40 as a ferti- 

 lizer, while corn meal is only worth $24.48 as a 

 food, and $7.16 as a fertilizer. In other words, it 

 will take a ton and a half of corn to equal the feed- 

 ing value of a ton of oil meal, and three tons of corn 

 meal to equal the oil meal as a fertilizer. There is 

 a small percentage of plant food lost in the con- 

 sumption of food by cattle. Its combined value 



