Bulletin 83 August, 1901 



NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



THE VALUE OF MEADOW MUCK 



BY FRED W. MORSE 



In order to use meadow muck with economy it is necessary 

 to know something about its value in comparison with barn- 

 yard manure. This bulletin is intended to show the compar- 

 ative values per cord of the two materials, based on data taken 

 from the woik of our agricultural experiment stations. 



The amount of fertility in barnyard manure was reckoned 

 from analyses of nineteen different lots used by the Massachu- 

 setts Experiment Station^ in a series of cooperative field ex- 

 periments. These lots of manure were from different farms 

 and represented actual farm-practice, which makes them more 

 suitable for this bulletin than the average of all analyses pub- 

 lished in experiment station literature. 



The average percentage composition of these manures was 



Water. Nitrogen. Phosphoric acid. Potash. 



70.27 .3S7 .249 .388 



Six of the lots had the organic matter in them determined 

 with an average result of 26.74 per cent. 



In a part of the experiments the manure was both weighed 

 and measured with the result that eleven lots ranged between 



» Mass. Hatch Exp. Sta. Bulletins 9 and 14. 



