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able plant food. The manuring of pasture lands is 

 one of the best ways of utilizing the manure when 

 trouble arises from slow decomposition. 



Fig. 27. Manured land. 



Fig. 28. Unmanured land. 



195. Small Manure Piles Undesirable. It is 



sometimes the custom to make a large number of 

 small manure piles in fields. This is a poor practice, 

 for it entails additional expense in spreading the ma- 

 nure, and the small piles are usually so constructed 

 that heavy losses occur, and the manure, when finally 

 spread, is not uniform in composition. Oats grown 

 on land manured in this way present an uneven ap- 

 pearance. There are small patches of thrifty, overfed 

 oats, corresponding to the places occupied by the 

 former manure piles, while large areas of half-starved 

 oats may be observed. 



