Beans 



 1 



930 

 2000 



1240 

 15CX) 



19.18 

 6.40 



7-63 

 4.60 



5. 1 1 

 9.80 



Wheat, j Grain, 15 bushels, 

 ' \ Straw, I ton. 



Total, 



Beans, 20 bushels. 

 Vines, 



Total, 75.07 20.53 53-73 



Ensilage, 20 tons, 113.00 4400 120.00 



USE OF FARM YARD MANURE. 



The general character of farm yard manure has been allud- 

 ed to in Bulletin 5, page 11; it is not a concentrated fertilizer, but 

 rather the reverse. 1562 pounds of water. 9.6 lbs of potash, 4 2-3 

 pounds of phosphoric acid, 9.6 pounds of nitrogen and 414 

 pounds of undigested matter, sand, iron, lime, magnesia etc., 

 making up a ton. The total amount of deficient plant food a- 

 mounting to 23.9 lbs. It will also be seen on page 12 that the 

 amount per cord is 95.6 lbs., or if 7 cords are applied per acre 

 the figures amount to 66.9 pounds. It must not be supposed, 

 however, that all of this is available, for a part of the nitrogen 

 is in the undigested food and must decompose in the soil, while 

 a part of the phosphoric acid (about one-half of it) is insoluble. 

 From the analyses . of chemical fertilizers it will be seen that 

 there is actualy more available plant food in a hundred pounds 

 of corn fertilizer than there is in a ton of manure, as has been 

 already pointed out a large part of the value of the manure of 

 an animal is in the liquid manure in the form of urea, a sub- 

 stance containing nitrogen, and which by fermentation changes 

 into ammonia, and is lost, or may be if no precautions are taken, 

 this being true the safest way would seem to be to get the ma- 

 nure both solid and liquid into the soil before fermentation 

 takes place. This may be accomplished by drawing and spread- 

 ing the manure as fast as it accumulates whether in summer or 

 winter. In many places this is practiced, but the deep snows 

 of a New Hampshire winter prevent this generally, it is also 

 true that on steep hillsides the plant food would be washed 

 away to a certain extent, but on level land or land of moderate 

 slope I should never hesitate to spread manure at any time 

 when I could conveniently draw it to the field whether in the 

 fall, winter, spring or summer. It is sometimes urged that ma- 

 nure loses nitrogen by exposure to wind and snow, hut if ma- 

 nure is drawn out before fermentation commences there is little 



