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all crops. On a prairie soil of average fertility an 

 application of well-rotted manure may cause wheat to 

 lodge. When manure cannot be applied directly to 

 a crop, it may be used indirectly. It never injures 

 corn by causing too rank a growth, and when wheat 

 follows corn which has been manured there is but 

 little danger of loss from lodging. 



On some soils stable manure cannot be used for 

 growing sugar-beets ; on other soils it does not seem to 

 exercise an injurious effect. Tobacco is injured as to 

 quality by manure. Crops, as flax, tobacco, sugar- 

 beets and wheat, which do not admit of direct appli- 

 cations of stable manure all require the manuring of 

 preceding crops. When in doubt as to what crop to 

 apply the manure to, it is always safe to apply it to 

 corn, and then to follow with the crop which would 

 have been injured by its direct application. 



The facts that coarse, leached manure may cause 

 trouble in a dry season, and that well-rotted manure 

 may cause grain to lodge, are no substantial reasons 

 why manure should be wasted as it frequently is in 

 western farming by being burned, used for making 

 roads, thrown away in streams, or used for filling up 

 low places. 



198. Comparative Value of Forage and Manure. 



The manure from a given amount of grain or fodder 

 always gives better results than the food itself used 

 directly as manure. The manure from a ton of bran 

 will give better returns than if the bran itself 

 were used. This is because so little of the fertility 



